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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Search for "pacakges" is needed in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos 11 users can search for 'Reports, Folders, Dashboards, Data, Explorations, Notebook and other' but one of the most important objects "packages" is not on the search list. It is often "how many packages are in ...... cognos environment" b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Allow CECD0015E to inform user where error was found

CECD0015E error message is cryptic at best. It does not allow the customer (user) to make any determination as to the cause of the error or the ability to fix the error. In order to currently fix the error, the user MUST contact IBM with JESLOG an...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When an archive file is deleted through Optim, the corresponding XML file should also be deleted.

This will prevent clients from having to manually delete files. This is being raised on behalf of case TS006385839.
about 3 years ago in Optim 1 Future consideration

Send emial form StoredProcedure

having the ability to send emails from a stored procedure, would allow you to be immediately updated on the outcome of important processing
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Support GCP's Cloud Spanner as the available data sources in CP4D's DataStage

My Clients can transfer and analyze data on only CP4D without buying and develop new software and tool.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Control Schedule Capability on a Report Specific Level

We'd like the ability to control whether a user or users can have schedule capabilities on a report level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiline Labels on Map Visualisations

I would like to be able to display Multi Line Labels on the Map Visualisation. This would allow me to display a customer address over several lines like an address label. I have tried appending the address details separated by Carriage Return, or ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple retention periods for OnBar

Multiple retention periods for OnBar. Allow two or more retention periods to be defined for OnBar backup. For example, 0 – 60 Days: Keep all backup objects, Level 0, 1, 2 and Logical Logs61 – 120 Days: Keep selected backup objects, Level 0 and...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve Tab - Filter for Low Confidence but not Irrelevant

I would like to be able to filter logs to find user utterances that are not irrelevant but are less than 50% (for example) confidence so that I can decide whether they were correctly understood or whether they should be added to the examples for a...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration