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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Create a default user temporary tablespace at the database creation

Create a default user temporary tablespace (user_tempspace1 ??) at the database creation.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE Multi Edit Screen is very slow with items and doesn't have paging

When users view all catalog items on Multi Edit Screen and try to scroll them, the load takes a lot of time because as we know, MDM CE loads all items between that last loaded and items on which the window is focused.
about 6 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration