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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Content store consistency checker to clean groups

The content store consistency checker properly identifies users and groups in the content store that no longer exist in Active Directory. During cleanup, it will delete orphaned users in content store, but not groups. Please do groups too. Painful...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Group Repeating Cells - export to Excel as Page Property

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove or encrypt data that is stored in dashboard JSON specification when using a data element in the color slot of a visualization with color consistency turned on

This will prevent data security concerns when distributing packages that contain dashboards
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Global Environment Templates

I am writing to request the implementation of a feature that would greatly enhance the administrator experience on the platform – the ability for administrators to create/modify globally available custom environment templates. Currently, our platf...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Make the importing of Agent (Event) schedules consistent with schedules for reports/jobs

In Cognos 10, if you do not select the option to Include Schedules in an Export, the Import would not touch existing schedules. In Cognos 11.x, if you do not select the Include Schedules option in an Export, the Import will DELETE an existing sche...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the setting of a global option make LOAD jobs fail if a PRESORT cannot be performed

UET will be withdrawn from support next year and its use needs to be removed. To do this the newly provided support for the PRESORT keyword in the LOAD utility needs to be the same and consistent as the functionality that UET provided for PRESORT....
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for PDS input files to PRESORT in LOAD

The Utilities Enhancement Tool (UET) provides support for the PRESORT keyword for LOAD. It will sort the input file and pass it to LOAD to perform the LOAD. It will accept the input file as being a PDS and perform a PRESORT. UET will be withdrawn ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Removal of ephemeral port use for sysplex/dvipa monitoring from Db2 DDF

In addition to the ports configured in BSDS (INADDR_ANY), Db2 DDF opens an additional ephemeral TCPIP port. It binds to the DVIPA address and requests an ephemeral port be assigned, the number is randomly chosen from a pool by TCPIP.This feature i...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration