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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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Flexibility to Make Attributes Searchable After Creation in Match360

Currently, in the Match360 data model, an attribute can only be designated as searchable during its initial creation. Once the attribute is created and published, it cannot be altered as a searchable attribute. This lack of flexibility restricts t...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

add data masking as option for object security in Framwork Manager and Data Module

Having Data Masking available as security option for object security in Framework Manager and the Data Module allows us to set the visibility of a certain attribute in a report or dashboard for specific user groups, as defined in the security of C...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Prevent email notifications for inactive users (when user isEnabled=TRUE)

the solution will improve the security of data / information because they will not be sent to someone who no longer has access to the application (reasons may be different)it will mainly benefit the entity using OpenPages, e.g. a bank
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Populate Data Tray with FM Package Data

Expand Data Tray Scope to include data from FM packages. Right now it is difficult to debug data/model issues in Dashboarding.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Ability to control cplex memory consumption

Nowadays optimization runs are more and more conducted in the cloud, in kubernetes environments. In kubernetes, the processes run inside containers in what are called pods. To prevent a pod to be killed when the node (machine) capacity is exceeded...