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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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Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
19 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to Specify Target Fields for Natural Language Query (NLQ) in Watson Discovery

Currently, when using NLQ (Natural Language Query), all fields in a document are included as the search target. However, there are cases where certain fields should not be subject to natural language queries (e.g., fields like URIs that indicate t...
19 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules

Dashboard for Data Protection Rules, a better way to visualize a large amount of rules and what they affect
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Folder Structure in DMC for WQ

LMCO requests changes/enhancements to the folder structure present in DMC/WQ UI. Currently, the folder structure is fairly rigid and maps only to the available schemas. This can be unwieldy when connecting to the database via JDBC. LMCO requests a...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Allow us to use the profile tables to set the ACCUMACC zparm more granular

At the present time we have ACCUMACC set to 20. We have had to set this to 1 for problem determination purposes. In our active system it causes issues with our SMF jobs when we have done this for even a short time. We would like the ability to use...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
4 months ago in Db2 1 Under review
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Need way to schedule TM1 Server Restart

Need the ability to schedule a restart of the TM1 server.Right now it is completely a manual process which requires a person to work after hours to perform this action. We need some way that a TI process or Command Center or the PAA to have a time...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

chat based field

Sometime when multiple people are working on an Object they would like to provide the feedback. can there be a field like chat based . so that in that field only they can add comments.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Under review