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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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Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In Case Management, allow visibility of fired rules for only the mandator level they fired in.

Currently, in a Case all rules that fired will be shown in that case, even if another case class was raised by the same or other rules firing at the same time. Therefore, if there are sensitive rules from 1 department firing, these would be visibl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager: Option to allow "true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation" using conformed dimensions

Framework Manager: Provide an option to allow true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation using conformed dimensions In other words: provide a way to suppress the use of stitch columns in well defined models.PMR: TS001052591
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Classic experience: Return to same page in intent list after editing intent

When you have more than 100 intents and edit/delete one of them, you always end up in the first page of the intent list. Instead you should return to the page with the intent you just edited.
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Alter Uploaded Files

When uploading excel sheets to use, display, and manipulate for the purpose of storyboarding or dashboarding, there is no feature to change or view the attribute types once uploaded. In order to accomplish this task, you must re-upload and re-link...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Image in an excel report always adding some white space on the right side.

In report when ever image is used extra white space gets added in the cell. The excel cell should span to the size of the image only.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Consumers being required to have read access for interactive reports has broken our security model

We allow business area authors to develop reports in the production environment. Business area consumers only run reportsBusiness area authors have Report Studio capability, Read, Execute, Traverse to the business area reporting package, and at le...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable selection and copy text in non-interactive reports

We would like that the option of selecting and coping text from non-interactive reports to be disabled. At this moment, there is no option to disable these features and users can copy details from the Cognos reports and use them outside the applic...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration