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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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Add data masking support for BLOB columns

We have some RTF data loaded into the new DB2 Warehouse environment as a BLOB column in table UDF_CIS_RAW_DV.SXACDCLIENTDOCDETAILTEXT_GUID_DETAILTEXT and we're able to extract it back into an RTF by casting the DetailText field as varbinary, but w...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Encrypting and Decrypting Stored Procedures

Would like Informix to have feature of encrypt the source code for a stored procedure and function.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

Set User Preference for Automatic Group and Summary Behavior for Lists

Allow users to set their preference for 'Automatic group and summary behavior for lists' as a user preference rather than the current requirement to set as an option for each report.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save Report output to Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users to schedule their report's output to Box or OneDrive accounts. This will bring a lot of value for our users as often our users schedule reports to be delivered via email and some of them are r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All User Prompt Values

We desperately need to know ALL the prompts that are being submitted by users - the Admin interface shows the background processes, but user interactive reports aren't available. I tried RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG=true in hopes of parsing cogipf_paramete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Refresh table process needs ways to identify possible bootlenecks

During normal Mirroring in a subscription we have the ability to put it into monitoring and the console shows the activity and possible bottlenecks. But during refresh it's like a "black box". We have no way within the product to try to identify t...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Tooltips on Report Names

I would like to be able to have a tooltip pop up on mouse over when the user hovers over a report name in Team Content that lists a description of the report and also an image of the completed report. This will greatly aid our customers that can't...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Extension Output Node for Python with Graph Output tab like R

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the stream pr...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Planned for future release

Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Change/Specify Name of Field in Legend

Lack of customization in RAVE visualizations is a major impediment to adoption. Need the ability to customize the field names within the legend in all of the different visualization templates.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration