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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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Issue with DQ Rules for TIMESTAMP Data Type

We have compared data from Snowflake (SF) and IA. So when we bring in a table from SF into IA it is updating any column that is a data type “Timestamp” and the value for that column ends with a “0” Changing the value for the column to add a “T” wh...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

'Publish asset' permission in Watson Query

Customer requests a new permission in Watson Query to 'publish asset'. This permission should be assignable to any user, regardless of their WQ role. This new permission would provide customers with the flexibility to determine which specific user...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

enhancement of behavior of common data download in hybrid environment

With current design, when SIM fails to download common data due to network error or any other problem, SIM will hang there and does not sense the error at all. This error is quick common in hybrid environment these days. For example, we've grids o...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Login screen showing a pre-filled value for Namespace

Hi, We are on CA R5 installed in a distributed mode on Linux with dual namespaces called "ADESI" and "ES" configured. In version 10, the namespace value on the login screen is pre-populated in the alphabetical order i.e. with ADESI first and ES la...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reports can only be saved on same location

We noticed that saving a report (in the new interface) in the delivery options only applies to the report itself. It is not seemingly possible to save the report in a different path. If we use the classic overview and stop the delivery, we can sti...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Scheduled Reports: Ability to include Report Execution Timestamp in the notification Email

We have a client requirement where client wants to include the report execution timestamp in the notification email which is sent to them for a scheduled report. Currently, in the Notification email, we cannot add any metadata related to the Repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notebook visualization don't show what notebook and path the visualization was add from

I am look at a sample and it is telling the notebook needs to be relinked. Since I didn't create the dashboard or report, I can only guess what notebook the visualization came from and the name of the visualization from the notebook. Need to be ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to bulk export/push jobs from Data Flow Designer to GITHUB repository

In the current 11.7 implementation, each datastage job has to be pushed on to GITHUB repository. Say that there are 100 jobs in a datastage project, each job has to be opened in the flow designer and then published to the GITHUB repo. This is a ti...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration