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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Rename folder names on home page

Hello There, We are looking for a way to rename the 'Team content' and 'My content' folders on Cognos Analytics home page. This feature is available on earlier Cognos 10.X versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

StartupChores in V12

StartupChores is not accessible in V12. Update the instance configuration interface to allow the setup of StartupChores parameter in V12. As of 20/05/2024 the documentation mentions this parameter is not part of the deprecated functions but unfort...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Sorting large amounts of data sequentially

We executed a query where a large amount of data had to be sorted. The execution stopped with SQLCODE -904 (temp. storage exceeded). This query was executed with DEGREE 1. When we executed the same query with DEGREE ANY, the query was executed by ...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Search result to be highlighted

Problem statement/pain point: Search with search bar in the main panel, return relevant asset list. But search does not provide information on where the search term hit the asset or the asset's metadata(e.g.asset name, description…). No workaroun...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Date Prompt in Dashboards (Slider or Date Box)

Currently we don't have this capability on Dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Freeze Sections in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

We created large dashboards in CA11 as part of our organization requirement, giving the users the ability to interact with multiple dimensions inside the same dashboard. Because of multiple visualizations inside the dashboard, users have to scroll...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted