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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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Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Bulk edit capability for categories

Content admins have a need to update certain properties/relationships/parent category of a set of categories in bulk; example case is to move a list of categories from one parent category to another in bulk
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future consideration

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release
110 VOTE

Missing functionality from C10 to C11: "Send report as email" or "Email Report"

In previous versions of Cognos Business Intelligence (10.2.x) we had the option to send a report by email directly from the Cognos Viewer - this option no longer exists in Cognos Analytics (11.0.6). See use case for details and screenshots.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

multi-language LLMs - availability in Europe

For many customers (not only public) it is needed to have availability of multi-language LLMs (i.e. llama 2) in european data centers to address GDPR requirements
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Java 17 Version of madapi.jar/InfoSphere MDM

Allstate has an AppFabric upgrade which includes Java 17 that we all need to complete for all of our Paas1 and 2 Services before end of Q3 due to compliance. Some of these Services call InfoSphere and therefore use the current version of the madap...
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
26 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

underscore character in "endpoint" name

in IBM planning Analytics Cloud, under Satellite Connector, when try to create endpoint, underscore charactor is not allowed in the name. can you support allowing endpoint name to have underscore character?
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Initiate (nz)genstats after NRS differential restore run

Actually there is are no statistics on NRS replicate side. In case of a failover genstats must be initiated first before database can be used for production.
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted