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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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A path to deploy bulk deletes without the strain stemming from entity composition rebalancing.

In our current bulk delete of a system (~144M across 4 record types), the TPS is very low as the process requires a constant kicking off of the match process, meaning that the re-balancing is taking a large portion of the compute. This seemingly i...
5 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Modify virtual table from UI

As a data steward I would like to have the possibility to modify a virtual table from the UI, without the need to run a SQL statement.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Improve JDBC’s SQLException Error codes

We have observed that, when we get an SQL Exception caused by different situations related to client-server communication issues, we always get an ErrorCode = 0 (((SQLException)sqle).getErrorCode()) For example, in case we have an open connection ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Rename option for Column header

Sometimes, when using PAW to create some dashboarding and reporting capabilities, we need to rename some column headers in a different way. Of course we can use aliases to give a new name to the element on that column, but as you know the aliases ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add LDAP Group Filters in Cognos Configuration

Please Allow us to Add LDAP Filter at Groups Level too. Currently, we are seeing all the Groups in LDAP which is slowing down the Cognos Login and Report Execution times, We have 10,000 Groups in LDAP and every time when user login to Cognos or pe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration