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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Planned for future release

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Canadian Data Centre for Cognos On-Demand

Many Canadian organizations require that all their data stay within Canada (both for storage and transit). A Canadian data centre is currently not available for Cognos On-Demand.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable sending individual messages from FTM Base to MER for printing ( pdf format), printing with a visible field description (printing ACKs and incoming messages)

Users can only save the .txt format without field description in Base , they need the ability to send the entire message (ACK with header) in pdf format in case of complaint and also incoming message with fields
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Enable message search by input and output sequence number ( ISN,OSN) and by message type, separate outgoing and incoming messages in the view

easier navigation and monitoring of messages, reducing the risk that some messages are not seen immediately
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

My Parameters should also work with Dashboards

My parameters is superb functionality that works with reports and many customers would benefit from it. Unfortunately it is not widely used. This is partly because it is not possible to use My Parameters with Dashboards, Stories and Exploration.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Period of inaction while building a report. Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout

Period of inaction while building a report.Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout Part 2If you have a period of inaction. Cognos becomes unresponsive, but does not direct you back to login screen to re-login....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration