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


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The jobs were developed in Watson Studio Notebooks in Python, they did not stop working when Python moved to a new version.

When the Python Library is updated, all jobs developed in the last version stop working. If it is possible to keep the work developed in the old version working for 1 or 2 previous versions of the current one. This possibility helps to have more t...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Keep job in memory for a specified time period

Allow job to be kept in memory for an extended amount of time beyond global setting
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

A Trino platform connector is needed for Cloud Pak for Data

Client is in need of a platform connector for Cloud Pak for Data for Trino as a data source. Please note Trino reference documentation: https://trino.io/docs/current/security.html
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Preview for WebP

Problem Description/Example of Pain Points:Currently, our company handles a large number of images, and the number of images in WebP format is increasing. However, the IPM application lacks the ability to preview WebP images, resulting in signific...
6 months ago in Product Master 0

Report layout is not same as layout of the old version

In the current version/setup, we are running the embedded report library, which may cause slight layout differences in some reports. The embedded report library cannot be modified directly and requires an enhancement or idea request. The current v...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect