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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,

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  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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The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

}ApplicationSecurity blank means NONE

At the moment, }CubeSecurity, }DimensionSecurity, }ElementSecurity_XXX, and even }CellSecurity, blank is NONE, or no access. However, for }ApplicationSecurity, it is requiring administrator to populate NONE in order to make the application no acce...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Add Master Detail Relationship for Chart Visualizations in Cognos 11.1

Master detail relationships option found under DATA for Cognos analytics Chart visualisation is not available in Cognos 11.1 (especially 11.1 R5 version). The feature was available in Cognos 10. The feature is needed in Cognos 11.1, such that we c...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Planned for future release

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

CDC replicate to Azure Datalake on parquet format

We need to move online data from our IBM i to Azure Datalake, we have DataStage but it's not online.
28 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

CDC can not support ARM arquitecture from AWS EC2

IIDR CDC can't be executed on AWS EC2 instances if it's selected an instance with an AWS Graviton processors. This situation limit the family instances elegibles to be selected.
28 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Support LDAP when uid's do are not "full dn"

Add SCH On-Prem's LDAP synchronization support for the posixGroup object class. Currently does not have support for LDAP directories using posixGroup uid’s because they don’t include a member's full dn.
5 months ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration