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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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enable catalog database with SECURITY SSL in LDAP (MS active directory)

After enabling ssl for connections to db2 we want to register (catalog) database in Microsoft active directory (LDAP) to provide it to all user. But "db2 register db2 server in ldap as DATABASE protocol tcpip hostname hosta svcename 50005 SECURITY...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Delivered

Request to add parameters - Control Unload Utility:Specify new "Register" Option by Db2 Subsystem(zparm)

In Db2 12, the UNLOAD utility have a new "REGISTER" option, with SHRLEVEL CHANGE/ISOLATION UR. The default is NO. The default behavior of UNLOAD utility with REGISTER option is to reads pages directly from disk only, UNLOAD might miss recent data ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Increase number of synonyms limit for query expansion

Query expansion via synonyms is a very powerful yet easy to configure feature. However, the current limitation of 500 entries across all expanded_terms arrays is too low for most use cases. For enterprise corpora covering a multitude of topics, we...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Cognos integration with Databricks

Support Databricks Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 6 Delivered

Leverage change history in new UI

Although sensibly de-prioritised, change history is an important future addition to the new UI. This request focuses on how change history could be better presented (the current standard UI change history format is not easy to read). Option 1. Ea...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

Speed up Drive Explorer display of folder view

Display of the \data folder is extremely slow (60+ seconds). Need to improve this via caching and/or partial display while load continues in the back ground or something else.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

PAW Cubeviewer: Asymmetric calculations

PAW cubeviewer introduced "on the fly" calculation within the cubeview. However these calculation only works in symetric mode which means that we can't cross specific elements of several dimensions to create calculation. A simple example in financ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Postgres Support for Cognos Analytics Content Store

Postgres is supported by Cognos Analytics as a data source but is not supported as a content store database. From a deployment and cost perspective it would make sense to support Postgres for both so that it simplifies the process. Currently, we...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

DataStage to support numeric Column Family (CF) in HBase

Currently, DataStage only supports alphabetic (letters) Column Family (CF) in HBase tables and it is a common practice to create numeric CF in HBase tables (e.g. the default CF is zero). Therefore, if CF has a numeric value DataStage cannot write ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Delivered