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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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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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allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add Two Factor Authentication support for Data Studio

Our z/OS security infrastructure now requires two factor authentication for all z/OS IDs which have elevated privileges. These IDs are required to configure new connections or apply maintenance for bind activities in DS. Are there any plans to add...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

parallel insert into row organized table

parallel insert is only supported on Column organized table. insert into row_table select * from souce_table is very slow
7 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to reset passwords for non-interactive/fs accounts within the PAW --> Administration / Welcome Kit Settings page

To ensure appropriate security protocols are established; passwords for all accounts interacting with our environment need to be rotated on a regular basis. The ability to trigger this activity should be self-service similar to the rotation of ric...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support WKS subtypes

When uploading a trained WKS model as machine learning enrichment, only entities are detected and indexed, but not subtypes (on WD for CP4D). Please also consider supporting subtypes in the planned real-time NLP feature.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Azure Synapse Connector

A dedicated connector stage for Azure Synapse will be helpful for organization with multi-cloud presence. Current version of Cloud Pak doesn't have this feature.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Hide standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to hide the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons located in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to hide the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons located in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically refresh after execution for Navigation Buttons

Dear PAW-Team, When navigating via the navigation button between several books that refer to the same selection elements, we are currently exposed to the problem that our customer must manually press the refresh button if elements have changed.Oth...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration