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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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For RSS and HDR nodes partition the apply work by transaction id instead of partnum.

For RSS and HDR nodes currently the apply work is partitioned across threads by partnum, We would like the option to partition the work across apply threads by transaction id. Currently RSS apply threads have to syncronise with the other apply...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Bring back support for Virtual View Manager (ODBC) data source

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were using IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager (ODBC) also known as Composite (ODBC) data source to select online a WSDL interfaceand also in Data Manager as package data source.In Cognos Analytics VVM has been deprecated in 11.0.2...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Multi-select option for BE Selector Field Type

This was requested two years ago, but accidentally marked as 'Delivered'. Right now all Object types where users want to Identify (for example) Impacted Locations, admins are forced to create fields 'Impacted Location', 'Secondary Impacted Locatio...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Future consideration

Manual assignment of business glossary against technical meta by key business term searching should be assisted by supporting category search function.

After asset discovery processing, user can check whether some business glossary are assigned against technical metas automatically. In addition, user can add manual assignment of additional business glossary against technical metas. In this situat...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Exclude content of hidden folder from search results

In many cases, security requirements dictate hiding a folder from users even though they have read and traverse permissions to it. Content of such folder should not be returned in any search results.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Details for User Creation Date

Auditors asking about the User Creation date. Have checked the xuser table but it is reflecting the last changed date (eg. change of password) rather than creation.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow

Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Output embedded reports as part of PDF outputs in Dashboards

The Use case revolves around dashboards that have complex embedded reports as part of the dashboard output. When exporting to PDF, currently, embedded widgets are not shown in the PDF output. This hinders the ability to consolidate and share insig...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Permission on (specific) query based on user role, user group or user

It should be possible to restrict a query or a group of queries within a mandator to specific user roles, user groups (for cases) or even specific users (e.g. private queries). Currently every user that has the "view query" permission sees and can...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration