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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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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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Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Home screen list of Projects should be sorted by most recently changed projects

Currently the list is sorted by descending date at which the projects were created. This is not particularly useful. We have many more projects than the 5 that will fit on the home page list. The last modified date of a project would be a much bet...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Database

Provide official support for the following Microsoft Azure solutions. 1. Azure SQL Datwarehouse as a DQM data sourcehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ 2. Azure SQL Database as a content store database.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mode 1 Users can change their own Password in Pafe

In security Mode 1, Pafe users are unable to change their password. Having such functionality would seem to be a basic feature of any client / server software and does exist in the legacy clients.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My Parameters should also work with Dashboards

My parameters is superb functionality that works with reports and many customers would benefit from it. Unfortunately it is not widely used. This is partly because it is not possible to use My Parameters with Dashboards, Stories and Exploration.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Securing Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

How can we use Workload Identity Federation(WIF) to access GCP from IBM CDC?

As present we are using Service Account json key to access the GCP from IBM CDC and that json key used to expire every 90 days which has to manually configure everytime in CDC side. Due to this there is going be huge impact to the Production repli...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Planned for future release

Consumers being required to have read access for interactive reports has broken our security model

We allow business area authors to develop reports in the production environment. Business area consumers only run reportsBusiness area authors have Report Studio capability, Read, Execute, Traverse to the business area reporting package, and at le...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration