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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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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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IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable sending individual messages from FTM Base to MER for printing ( pdf format), printing with a visible field description (printing ACKs and incoming messages)

Users can only save the .txt format without field description in Base , they need the ability to send the entire message (ACK with header) in pdf format in case of complaint and also incoming message with fields
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Enable message search by input and output sequence number ( ISN,OSN) and by message type, separate outgoing and incoming messages in the view

easier navigation and monitoring of messages, reducing the risk that some messages are not seen immediately
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE  for Oracle ID used for CDC replication

Remove the requirement for select catalog role and replace it with the lower level specific authorities required
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Canadian Data Centre for Cognos On-Demand

Many Canadian organizations require that all their data stay within Canada (both for storage and transit). A Canadian data centre is currently not available for Cognos On-Demand.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formula-based MAX_QUERYDEGREE settings.

MAX_QUERYDEGREE allows to specify the maximum degree of parallelism for a query. The setting of ANY is usually to aggressive for typical Db2 SAP systems. Specifying an absolute value has the disadvantage of having to adjust the parameter for every...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration