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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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Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Possibility of disabling download on data based on confidenciality

There are customers who want their users to be able to access information but to not be able to download the information if it is tagged as confidential.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include Accounting Format for currency values

Like the Currency format, the Accounting format is used for monetary values. But, this format aligns the currency symbols and decimal points of numbers in a column. In addition, the Accounting format displays zeros as dashes and negative numbers i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow multiple users in Investment register at the same time

Multiple users should be able to access the Investment register, so that they don't need to wait for somebody to be done entering their new investment values.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

SYSPUNCH - be able to suppress NUMRECS

Certain processes use load cards created from unload utility using LIMIT 0. This creates NUMRECS 0 that needs to be removed prior to the LOAD.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Option to configure PAW logging in Local timezone.

At this point, there is no way to change the logging timezone in PAW from GMT to local, would like to have feature to change PAW logging from GMT to local timezone.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

produce warning message when local bufferpool reaches DM Threshold

Produce an alert message when local bufferpool reaches DM threshold.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration