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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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Pass database hints through cognos

Many databases provides hints to improve the performance of the queries. In recent observation, we saw that when cognos report is running it takes 10-15 mins where as when we run same query at database side (Vertica) with hints it gives output in ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Report Output Format data in Audit Package

The report performance is being calculated using Audit package. The performance report will be published to the higher level of management. The report performance should be captured only for the HTML report execution. In the Audit package, there i...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to bring your own model to watsonx.ai

A large Federal customer requires the ability to bring their own models to the watsonx platform. The customer builds their own in-house models and their ability to deploy production watsonx.ai use cases will depend on their ability to leverage the...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Functionality already exists

Relative Aliases for Forecasting

We are using the Basline Forecast to produce a 17 week production forecast. Every 3 weeks we re-forecast the 17 week period after reloading historical actuals. To minimize the maintenance each time we run the forecast, we have aliases on our week ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Direct URL or Navigation for Baseline Forecast

We are trying to create either a navigation action button or a direct link to open a Baseline Forecast. There are no options on an action to navigate to a baseline forecast. When we use the hyperlink option and use the URL of the baseline forecast...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Global Environment Templates

I am writing to request the implementation of a feature that would greatly enhance the administrator experience on the platform – the ability for administrators to create/modify globally available custom environment templates. Currently, our platf...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Possibility to execute STARTQ command with "CAPTUREUPTO" option

In high workload environments it would be very useful to let QCapture work on a STARTQ command with predefined end. Currently this can be done by a STARTQ command and after the SendQ is active a subsequent STOPQ with captureupto.But if for some re...
10 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Possibility to execute STARTQ command with "CAPTUREUPTO" option

In high workload environments it would be very useful to let QCapture work on a STARTQ command with predefined end. Currently this can be done by a STARTQ command and after the SendQ is active a subsequent STOPQ with captureupto.But if for some re...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Align PAW roles with PA Subscriptions

Although the documentation states that an Explorer subscription can only be associated with Consumer role in PAW, in fact turning one user's subscription from User to Explorer in Subscription Management portal does not automatically change the rol...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Certify informix 12.10 on RHEL8

NEWS FLASH - the website now shows that 12.10.FC15 is certified on RHEL 8. This should be marked as completed. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements We need to stay with Informix 12 so that our compiled 4GL will con...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration