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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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Pushdown execution on Hadoop

Customer current Catalog tool(Informatica) supports Pushdown Execution/Computation on Hadoop clusters and they have dependencies on this, so for competitiveness...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

WKC needs to handle Complex Data Types

Just like how we process and use Integer, Char Data and other data types. Customer wanted to process Complex data Type(Array, Map,Struct, Union). So when I run MDI and MDE, it can work with Complex data Type too. Need to get the full list from the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Logging in both Metadata Import and Enrichment don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred

Customer feels that logs don't have enough information to understand why an error has occurred. Also feels if an import or an enrichment job takes long time to complete there is not much info in the logs to see how the jobs are progressing. The lo...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

secure Report output using Azure Information Protection API

Because of the new General Data Protection Regulation we would like to be able to select an option to secure all Cognos 11 report outputs so that even when the downloaded output files (excel, pdf,..) are distributed to other people (via mail, usb,...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display MSAS Measures folder correctly in list of measures when displayed in Cognos applications

MSAS \ SASS cube Measures folder is displayed in the middle of the list of Measures when the cube is opened in Cognos applications and looks strange, intuitive and should not be ordered this way.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Instance Configuration encryption setup

Delivers IDR with a predefined encryption profile for Non Encrypted. This increases intuitivity on the dmconfigurets interface. Customers get confused when trying to configure their first Instance, calling for support, increasing their time to set...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

There is no function to set a seed in the balance node.

We never get same records because there is no function to set a seed in the balance node. It is important to have fixed records while we attempt to build better model.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Optimization Hints for Dynamic SQL

The current infrastructure for access path stability for dynamic SQLs does not have a mechanism to do patter matching on SQL statement. If access path stability is needed on a SQL where the predicates have actual literal values and the values chan...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration