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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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ask for adding "description" into the columns of data asset in Project UI

Please see the two pictures in the attachments: "describe 2": when we click on the data asset , we can see the "description" in the red borders. "describe 1": we hope that "description" also can show in the data asset overview columns which can he...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Unavailability of 'Save the report as a report view' option for Delivery in Jobs

We could not find an option called "Save the report as a report view" in Analytics View to save the report as a report view for a report in the job from the report properties, so we are unable to view the report details from the Job when a report ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Directory as a Datasource

We use AUDIT + AD data to look at the environment utilization. Having Active Directory details within the reporting environment helps us connect to the users and their managers readily (with the email or phone info available in AD). If we see long...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to VM snapshot an On-Line Informix database

Due to the widespread popularity of vmware, the Informix database should be able to interact with the vmware software to block and take a proper snapshot of the database. This would enable people with vmware to do a snapshot of an Informix databas...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Added a 'highlighter' color option that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted

Added a 'highlighter' color option (e.g. translucent) that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted either by using the pen or a drawing object (e.g. rectangle) instead of just underlined by a pen or outlined by a box.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

variable value in file name

a single column-value of a query or the value of a parameter in Report-Studio can be used as part of the output-file-name (Excel, PDF etc.), f.e. extended at the end of the file-name (like burst-function).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Protect against DOS when user has password expired

Hi team, recently we had open a support case TS004670019 on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TrWNRAA3/1222wd-db2-taking-too-long-to-login We had a situation with an automatic process that got it's password expired and begun failing t...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration