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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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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.

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REST API: Content Ancestors

Objects returned by /api/v1/modules include an ancestors object, making it simple to identify the location of the data module. Please provide an ancestors object for objects returned by /api/v1/modules/<storeID>, /api/v1/content/<storeID&...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Task Focused UI - Reporting Period Dropdown in Top Bar

In the current Task Focused UI, the user needs 5 clicks to change the reporting period: - User (opens sidebar)- Change reporting period (opens the popup)- Open the dropdown menu- Click on the desired reporting period- Hit save Which then refreshes...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Future consideration

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments. Dbschema does not help if a test environment needs a schema refresh. A tool is needed to unload the schema and then apply the schema into another environment generating with not jus...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Auto assign Data Classification

we will like to explore option to automatically assign data classification to the assets based on predefined condition. This is required as when we run the job to publish catalog, the software does not tell us which is the new tables being publish...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Allow indexes to be made invisible to queries

When removing unused indexes the first step we want is to be able to make index invisible to queries similar to the Oracle feature. As the index is still being maintained the rollback to make the index visible to queries is quick.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2

Allow for inclusion of custom Cognos "Hints" within Reports & Dashboards

Interactive reports and dashboards, when designed well, are mostly self-explanatory to use. However, there is often a need for just bit of user instruction. There are ways to build this in today using HTML items, javascript, links to external docu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort Column on Packages in Data Modules (Month Name)

Currently relational Framework packages are not able to sort Month Name by date. This creates dashboarding problems for users trying to do ad-hoc analysis on governed data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration