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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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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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Support for mass application and management of data rules

We would like better facilities for managing large numbers of data rules. Think hundreds to thousands.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

System admins and data stewards require job manager / scheduler tools and access

Data Stewards need a global view of scheduled jobs (i.e. what jobs have been scheduled for when) for specific projects. Data Stewards need the ability to manage jobs that have been scheduled as a group as opposed to one by one, for example stoppin...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Enable the Report tab in OpenPages Dashboard (TFUI) to render Active Reports

Active reports are interactive, quick filtering, attractive in look and feel and animations. As of now when we add active report in dashboard tab, it does not run in the same tab , but it opens up in a completely new window, instead running in the...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

The ability to repoint a view to a different source report

Previous versions have allowed the source report of a view to be amended. This is no longer an option in 11.0.5
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

informixhq Relate Dashbords Query with timestamp filter

InformixHQ allows you to visualize moments of stress but not to identify the queries that caused them. If we have registered the query history we can relate it to the peak of stress. It is solved simply by allowing to relate (timestamp) in the pan...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Materialized Query tables in DB2 z/OS with refresh immediate option

MQT's - Materialized Query tables - are a well known feature in all advanced relational database systems. The DB2 family has this feature since more than 10 years. If you look at this functionality in DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS the MQT functionality loo...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Row Level Access Control support

Db2 for z/OS customers are using multilevel security for business needs and regulatory reasons. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=granularity-creating-tables-multilevel-security If a table is defined with a AS SECURITY LABEL, this t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release