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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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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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DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

The search bar on the catalog should show exactly matched contents only

***This is an idea about the search bar on the catalog.*** ***This is not an idea about the black search bar on top of the CP4D WEB console window.*** <Background> User register some Business Terms and Tags using Japanese language in the C...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Build automatically Function in Report Studio

In previous version (impromtu) there was an automatic build up of the function/help available at the moment you started the expression. This nice feature is lost in time. would be nice to get this back as many users are struggling with enterring t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Excel options in cognos viewer

Veiw in excel options shows as excel 2007,but if cognos supports 2010 version also. why can't it be independent of version likeView in Excel Data OnlyView in Excel
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

allow calling original file from WD when integrating with WA

Customer wanted to call original file(e.g. pdf) from WD from WA, as they want end-user directly review full content of original file(e.g, pdf) including images by click URL in WA.
11 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

PAW Action Button item box for Lists is too small

When you link a parameter to a List control type, the control detail field is used to capture the items to be displayed in the list. To see or edit the items you need to copy and paste outside of PAW to Notepad or similar.For example, a short list...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

dbschema should always print the content in the same order that two dbschema files are still easily comparable after many changes

Use case: Find the essential dbschema changes between two releases. How can I achieve that? – With a dbschema -d database > filename for each release and compare the files. Problem: For example if functions, procedures or views are dropped and...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration