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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow file:// links in PAW

Buttons in Workspace only accepts http:// links as valid hyperlink targets. It would be nice it the button also allowed us to enter file:// links.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic (Schedule) planned download of used licenses

The license information about the current licenses can currently only be exported manually. It would be helpful to export this information automatically or planned / scheduled.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch delimiter of the license information export file

It would be helpful if you could change the delimiter of the export file. By default it is the comma. However, there may be occurrences that the name of the login also contains a comma.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

See previous changes to metadata

See physical changes to the data structure be reflected in the Metadata catalog with du[licates turned OFF.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Relate underlying assets to the connection

Capture not only metadata on object level (say, a DB table), but on DB schema level, to preserve understanding of connections between the tables, so that users may identify connected metadata objects based on the underlying DB schema
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts

Ability to support drag and drop workflow capabilities for semantic changes of governance artifacts
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Automate inventory of purposes through data consumer requests and ability to manually enter use cases

Inventory of Purposes/Uses – ability to track the various purposes for which we collect information and capture consents; need to have an inventory of recorded purposes.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Workflow for data protection rules

Track creation of a new use for a PII (e.g., health information - PIH) and create a new consent for this purpose automatically through workflow
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration