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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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Stop and start Query Engine via the interface

To reduce cost and energy consumption, it will be great to stop and start manually the query engines via the interface, or the shutdown automatically after x minutes of inactivity, and wake up on request (similar to wake on lan). We could have mul...
11 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Space Optimization tasks monitoring

When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package, that was available in 10.2.2 but not in CA11.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Motio PI in the Cognos Administration GUI

with release version Cognos Analytics 11.1 Motion Pi is also delivered for use. It would be nice if Motio PI will be integrated in the cognos administration console.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Incremental backup of LOBS

Incremental backup of db2 should do INCREMENTAL backup of Large Objects (Blobs, Clobs etc). I am referencing this two limitations: 1. If a table space contains long field or large object data and an incremental backup is taken, all of the long fie...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Export Recommender results

User Story: As a chatbot developer, I want to have the Watson Assistant Recommender export the results (to CSV file or otherwise) so that I can easier work with the results to increase the effectiveness of my chatbot. This export would be very h...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Functionality already exists

Be able to add data security to uploaded files

Be able to add data security to uploaded files: in some cases when uplaoded files get a more official status (like uploaded targets for sales reps or budget data for accounts), you want to be able to limit the access to these uploaded files like y...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unsupported Browser Version Warning Pop-up

There should be a pop up message that tells the user they are using an unsupported browser version and that some features may not work as intended, especially on the trial and cloud versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration