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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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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User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

ability to programatically "apply" an SSL/MA configuration

We are using an SSL/Mutual Authentication configuration, and have written a utility that helps automate the conversion of a non-SSL/MA configuration to an SSL/MA one. For a single server install, everything works great. For a 3-tier install, we ar...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Management Console Performance Metrics Graph Viewing - display metrics for selected point in time in the graph

When viewing the performance metrics graphs, it would be very helpful if when you use the mouse to point to a specific point in time on a line in the graph, that a box display which shows the values for that specific point in time for the metric r...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Collection of Performance Metrics at Started Task/Process startup

Today, in order to collect performance metrics about the execution of the CDC tasks/processes, it is necessary to start the subscription, and after starting the subscription you then need to specify which metrics you want to collect for EACH subsc...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Retrun SQL code to verify

My customer is developing an application that issues SQL to DB2 using the CLASSIC FEDERATION(CF).CF handles the SQL code other than 0 and +100 as errors and does not return it.The user is unable to handle the SQL code and is unable to develop a va...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

264 VLDB 2012 Track All DB2 Address Spaces Real and Virtual Storage in IFCID 225

With DB2 Ver 10 ECSA consumption has shifted from DB2 DIST address space to the DB2 MSTR address space. This is thread related storage and increases as the number of active DBAT connections increases. There is a need to track this for each individ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for new SAP BAPI function for query data more than 1M cells

Currently, when use Cognos BI query data from SAP BW. If the result is more than 1M cells SAP will return error message "BAP-ERR-0002 A BAPI error has occurred in the function module BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA. MDX result contains too many cells...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

stripchar() function requires use of accent grave instead of quotes (I'm not making this up!)

When attempting to use the stripchar() function in a DERIVE node to remove spaces, dashes and parentheses from a phone number string field, I encountered an error: failed to apply operator or function to argument types stripchar(SYMBOL,SYMBOL). Th...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration