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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.

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


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Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Export a report filtered results to excel

I need to export a results froma a html report where I have applied some filter on a results. I don't want to submit again the report to execute in excel format, because I lose my filter
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Runstats use profile

Runstats should be able to deal always with the generated profile for the optimizer.Or, DB2 should generate only such profiles that can be successfully executed.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve API response structure for timestamps and word_confidence within STT SpeechRecognitionAlternative model

As part of the response from making a POST to the v1/recognize endpoint in the Speech to Text service, the user receives an array of "alternatives". Within these "alternatives" objects, there are two arrays called "word_confidence" and "transcript...
almost 7 years ago in Speech Services 0 Not under consideration

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Option in portal to have folders/objects for Recent, Content, My Content or custom views appear in list view by default (instead of tile view by default)

Coming from release 11.1.7 to 11.2.2 users are more used to a list view for navigating to folders, reports, dashboards, etc. Users are also used to a list view when using the legacy portal to open cubes in Analysis Studio. We would like the option...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1

Ability to create 'Folders' in 'Data source Connections' in admin portal

Please add ability to create 'folders' in 'Data source connections' in admin portal 'configuration tab'
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release