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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.

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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Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide user the ability to suppress generation of DISCARDDN, PUNCHDDN, UNLDDN for reorg TS

These are not needed in most reorgs, tool should allow the user to determine if these should be generated.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Change to 'Active DB2 Systems' panel

When viewing the DB2 Tools Launchpad and the list of tools installed, enter '?' for a list of active SSIDs. The list that returns includes all DB2 Systems by name, but only the descriptions of the subsystems that match entries in the currently a...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enabling SQL Pushback for Sampling Nodes in Google BigQuery

We would like to have sampling nodes (random % ) Pushback enabled when connecting to Google BigQuery. When Pushback is disabled in Google BigQuery, the database write process becomes very slow. We would like it to be enabled for frequently used pr...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Row Level Access Control support

Db2 for z/OS customers are using multilevel security for business needs and regulatory reasons. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=granularity-creating-tables-multilevel-security If a table is defined with a AS SECURITY LABEL, this t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Video Option to Watson Assistant

Currently, users have to leave the Assistant to watch a video. It would be great to have "video" as an options just like "text" or "image".
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration