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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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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.

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


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Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard widgets as tiles on welcome page

CA Administrators can customize the welcome page by creating extensions and upload them. Additional skills and capabilities are required. For end-users who just want to customize their welcome page with a few information from different dashboards ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Applying NLU enrichments on the question

Many times, customer assumes that WDS will apply enrichments to the question also and use that to help in search. This is not currently the case. WDS need to have a way where by default (or by config) NLU enrichments can be applied on the question...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

no "ok" button when changing properties on a report

There is no "ok" button after changing properties on a report. You aren't sure if the change was applied after it's made. The button existed in Cognos 10.2. Sometimes the change is applied and sometimes not. You have to go back and check.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable defined limits on sqltrace

We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages. Currently the max it can go is 500 and if there are more models to be downloaded, it cannot be done with single export. We request you to please ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration