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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.

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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Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory restrict full search

Users can use search on AD namespace and be able to see all other users from other OUs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add SSL certs

"Plain text" connections to Informix are only encrypted if using SSL. The manuals and internet only explain "self assigned certification" well enough to implement. To make matters worse the "certs" expire and then you have to wipe everything out, ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Schedule GitHub Pushes

We have adopted the use of GitHub with change control in Workspace. Across our IT group, we have implemented continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools to run automated test suites, and automated deployments. We would like to be able...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

adding a question prompt like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude would be wonderful and functional instead of 3 months of stonewalling us with a million options NOT A PROMPT AND JUST A WASTE OF TIME...

adding a question prompt like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude would be wonderful and functional instead of 3 months of stonewalling us with a million options NOT A PROMPT AND JUST A WASTE OF TIME...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Kanji organization names transliteration and Fuzzy compare

Currently, we use com.ibm.gnr.ja.Kanji for Kanji names parsing/transliteration.We don't have similar support for organizations, we can only compare kanji organization names as exact-match and no "fuzzy logic" comparison of kanji organization is su...
about 1 year ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Not under consideration

Add SET CURRENT QUERY ACCELERATION WAITFORDATA setting into Profile Table in Db2 for z/OS

When Waitfordata setting is required for HTAP queries in IDAA for dynamic SQLs, waitfordata should be defined either in zPARM or as a register setting in application before the SQL statement which requires application change. It would be better to...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Delete functionality in the import specifications in Controller Web

It would be useful to have the delete functionality in the import specifications of Controller Web, similar as it is available in Controller Client.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Functionality already exists

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Global Pins for Dashboard

Create Global Pins in Dashboardingso they can be shareed with other users. The business purpose would be for our developers to create a dashboard object library that users can just drag in and combine into their dashboards
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration