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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.

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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Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 3

Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Merge Excel , CSV with OLAP sources (TM1/SAP BW)

Merging someone's personal data file with corporate data sources is quite a common requirement from all businesses. Cognos Analytics Data Modules is a very good answer to this requirement. However OLAP datasources are not included. But users like ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Set Editor window (in new look) cannot be moved independently

If you need to work with more than one window possibility to move Set Editor would make life much easier.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Run SQL to handle host variables as Data Studio does

When executing a SQL query under DSM, there is no provision for host variables and an error results when you try to execute a query. A simple example such as: SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, HIREDATE, JOB, SEX, BIRTHDATE FROM SPEMP ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

allow repack of TBLSpace extents

When a database has been created in a single (not root) dbspace and the dbspace has been greatly expanded with large tables that are subsequently moved to separate dbspace, the chunks used for original dbspace expansion may contain TBLSpace extent...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Create map with zip codes

Limited number of zip codes are currently supported for maps. We need a full set of zip codes in order to use the map functionality. Right now zip codes are showing as unrecognized location, even for major cities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Customize Report Console Spec

Can we customize Report Console Spec to display only Name and Value, and Remove "Type" from UI. CMO view is creating confusion before setting value corresponding to attribute. Attached screenshot for reference.
3 months ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Ability to remove / manage environments toward specific roles in a watsonx.ai project

Recently we had a team that utilized GPU runtimes for their notebook runs mistakenly, and this used a great deal of CUH. Looking through the options to build approval processes for expensive runtime environments, there doesn't look to be an abilit...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review