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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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Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

rate limiting to avoid excess password attempt

This vulnerability was discovered by attempting numerous incorrect passwords for a backup, followed by the correct one, and observing that authentication succeeded without any delay or lockout.There are password-protected backups available to user...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Greater filtering for files

We are a SAS shop, and we are finding the connection mechanism cumbersome. We have numerous file folders where SAS scripts are stored but we would like to filter out some of the scripts or sub folders. The current connection type does not allow fo...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Adding support for three-level namespace structure in WQ

We aim to implement a three-level namespace structure, i.e. <Catalog or Database Name>.<Schema Name>.<Table Name>. This structure is pivotal as the majority of our virtualized tables sourced from Databricks Unity Catalog which us...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

We should expand the maximum size of a LOB object per table or table partition

Enhance Maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition (in terabytes) 4 -> 8,16,32,64,128
8 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted