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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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Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Difficult reading of stage transformer in CP4D

Stage Variables: It is challenging to view all stage variables simultaneously and discern their interrelationships. Additionally, it is not possible to identify the types of fields in use. Output Derivation: The box for adding field derivations is...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Multilingual support for objects in Workspace

<As-Is> Currently, objects such as folders and books in Workspace are not compatible with multiple languages, so it is not possible to realize a mechanism that is compatible between Japanese-speaking users and English-speaking users. In ad...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set "Contains" as the default search option in Select and Search prompt

By default, the Select and Search prompt uses "Start with any of these keywords" as the default search option. This search option does not provide an optimal user experience. On most cases, the users usually remember only part of the string they a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Hide model components from users authorized only to use lower mandators

In large customers such as payment providers and banks usually setups go by multichannel -> channel -> department/customer. These institutions often want to have their centralized sets of rules and profiles that check the transactions indepe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Rerun Failed Reports

Every once in a while we have a database down when scheduled reports are set to be run. When this happens we have to re-run the scheduled reports. Currently the process is to filter on past report schedule history, select failed reports. Open the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan. This would allow more visibility into how plans change when they do change.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Add object names to onstat -k output

Add object names to onstat -k output this should include partition part name where apropriate.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Run process in sandbox in workbench

I can't imagine, that this is not possible yet, but since tm1forum was not able to support, nor Google nor ChatGPT , this seems to be missing or being a bug. I was not able to run a process in a sandbox in a workbench of PAW. From the architect I'...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration