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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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications in Business UI.

Hi Team, The support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications which has been removed from Business UI now. It will be good if we keep supporting that option as we see multiple use cases where need to have lookup referencing...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

onbar should be able to restore logs from primary AND HDR RO SECONDARY

... to prevent full backup after HDR primary/secondary switch ! At the moment (Version 12.10.xC14) cold restore after HDR primary/secondary switch is only working if:- both nodes have the same DBSERVERNAME/INFORMIXSERVER set because the namespace ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export XGBOOST models as PMML

XGboost models are becoming very popular and it's odd that it can't be exported as pmml like most of Modeler models
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Audit log for changes to Journal Types and Closing Versions

Currently there is no audit tracking for any changes for Journal types and Closing versions. If there is any changes to these structures, it changes the data reflected in the reports. Without any audit log, Users won't be able to track the changes...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Set up load balancing for Planning Analytics 2.0.1 PAW & Docker

We would like to set up load balancing.Currently the PAW Docker installation is a single point of failure for the Planning Analytics 2.0.1 application.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Server Install

Would prefer to run Lifecycle manager from a server rather than a desktop, but can't do that because when you log off a server, then it disables the application. Would like to be able to leave the machine and still leave the Lifecycle Manager stil...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sign and publish container images signing evidence for customer to whitelist them

It is observed that some of the images get blocked by the Antivirus at some customers during image pull on false-positive threat detection basis. Signing the container images and publishing the signing evidence can help with whitelisting these ima...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration