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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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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 Cognos Framework manager to take a JASON ro rest api as a datasource

Enhance Cognos Framework Manager to be able to use and API or JSON output as a datasource. This will save applications from having to temporarily save API outputs into a database.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cascading Prompts in Dashboards

We have developed a dashboard that includes prompts that provide the user with levels of our company hierarchy (ex. Opco, Bus Unit, Region, Branch ). We want the users to be able to choose an Operational Unit, and this choice will filter the Bus U...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

For CDC to support the BFILE datatype

Dear Team, As BFILE is unsupported datatype in CDC for Oracle Xstream. We are not able to MAP table with BFILE datatype at source. Even if a source table column is not mapped, the CDC source still needs to understand the datatype of the column to ...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

fast load for CDC PostgreSQL

Building out replication from IMS to PostgreSQL, we tested a refresh of 1.7 mil records which would take an estimated 11 hours. With 428 tables some over 50 mil. We need a faster way to refresh the tables. In addition to normal build out we need t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Turn off bulk download from PAW UI at Database level

Some planning models would be best with the export feature turned off. This should be database level at least
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow Microsoft SQL Server connection to authenticate to Active Directory

The CP4D default Microsoft SQL Server connector does not handle authentication with Active Directory. Instead customers need to create a service account ON the SQL Server itself. This is probably due to lack of properly passing authentication toke...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

OpenPages Logs in NCSA Format

Customer is requesting the OpenPages Logs can be structured in a way that can be automatically monitored to facilitate/anticipate Environment issues. One of the suggestios is to make OpenPages Logs in a NCSA format, so it could be connected not on...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 5 Delivered

Display Indexes and their columns, within QMF for Workstation, for each table. RFE 122333

We have application developers who use QMF for Workstation to write and run their SQL. From time to time, we are asked what indexes exist for specific tables, and their columns. If would be nice if QMF provided this information.
over 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support of Python in Cognos Analytics

I would like to have support for python in Cognos Analytics
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

need SQL tuning component

Now, we are using DSM to manage 235 sets of Db2 databases, of which SQL tuning is a more commonly used function for our system administrators and DBAs. We often use the SQL tuning function to optimize the SQL statements running in the production e...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered