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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Be able to add data security to uploaded files

Be able to add data security to uploaded files: in some cases when uplaoded files get a more official status (like uploaded targets for sales reps or budget data for accounts), you want to be able to limit the access to these uploaded files like y...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unsupported Browser Version Warning Pop-up

There should be a pop up message that tells the user they are using an unsupported browser version and that some features may not work as intended, especially on the trial and cloud versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

REST API call from stored procedure

Calling Watson APIs directly from DB through stored procedures like in DB2 with DB2XML.HTTPGETCLOB function.This feature would allow to build more integrated and more simple workflow for our Clients. Watson NLU, NLC, Translator are in use at this ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add support for UUID type from postgreSQL database.

Add support for UUID type from postgreSQL database.Cf. case TS001007774.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Confirm username+password on workflow step

Hi, for compliance reasons, we need the ability to configure certain workflow steps to prompt a user to re-enter their username and password. For example, we have a workflow with an Edit step followed by an Approval step. The Edit step has a "Subm...
6 months ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Turbo Integrator Variables

Have PAW interface show the file path of the source file. Also, be able to add a formula to variables added and evaluate the value (example: If(a=b,1, If(a=c,2,3));
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE IFI

The IFI interface is very useful for Performance analysis. But for RAS work it would be even better if any unusual SQL code was externalized in a new IFI record.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration