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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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DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Relative time reports different than dashboard

If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

parallel insert into row organized table

parallel insert is only supported on Column organized table. insert into row_table select * from souce_table is very slow
10 months ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

auto size search and select prompt in cognos report studio

By default the search and select prompt has fixed width when used on the prompt page, there is a system setting where it expands to width of contents automatically. Unfortunately that setting never worked at all, check note belowhttp://www-01.ibm....
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cascading Delete Enhancement

Currently it is not possible to have different scenarios for the cascading delete functionality. Objects can be excluded from the cascading delete entirely or not. There is no way to decide whether to delete an object depending on different use ca...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Provide an option to wipe all entries from a defined risk list

Currently there is no option to wipe all entries of a risk list. A risk list can also not be deleted as long as it contains entries. You have to manually select/mark all entries of a list and delete them. Setting a high amount of rows per page doe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS along with support for 9.x

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS support along with support for 9.x when the first LTS version is available (for both on-prem and Azure)
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release