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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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watsonx.ai SaaS HIPAA ready

We have a large healthcare client that requires HIPAA-ready services due to the nature of the use case: Medical Document Classification using watsonx.ai and Discovery SaaS. This is a deployment progression blocker issue, equating to ~$500k in reve...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1

Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

overrule the automatic CPU parallelism calculation of LOAD apart from command line

LOAD does an automatic CPU parallelism calculation, if not explicitly specified in the command by the user.To gain max performance, LOAD assumes, it is the only LOAD (and only application) running on the system and consumes nearly all available CP...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Restricting access to Db2s within a single UMS install (multitenancy)

We have multiple customers on the same LPAR with separate DB2 subsystems and they should not see other customer systems when using UMS/Admin Foundations/IDAA Admin Services/DevOps etc.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 2

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Extended options for PDF page setup

The optimization of the PDF output is quite circumstantial. Customers often like to have many elements on one PDF page. In the page properties it would be preferable to have an option in the PDF page setup (see screenshot) like "Render this report...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW overview of the folder/book structure incl. permissions

Regarding “corporate usability” PAW is missing an overview of the folder/book structure. Currently you have no chance to keep track of the folders underlying books and especially the permissions. At least there should be a way to export the whole ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow Cognos to be automatically redirected on session timeout

According to this IBM Technote (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22011410) there is currently no way to redirect to an external product's logon screen. This causes undesirable behavior when linking Cognos to our SSO page. We are ab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Provide a command to display the logstream starting point timestamp

The log scan starting point for a LOGSTREAM is based on all files defined to that LOGSTREAM , that value seem to be also store on the subscription Bookmark. We will like that starting point to be externalized via a command , at this moment that va...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Planned for future release