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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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AODA compliance requirements, Cognos to display a pop-up message to warm users that their session is about to expire

As per AODA compliance requirements, Cognos is required to display a pop-up message to warm users that their session is about to time out. Currently this functionality in not available.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Text cell format in PA Workspace

To optimize the use of automated reports, we need to have the possibility to add comments (text format) using colors or bold fonts for example. Today, we only have the possibility to add black and white comments, with simple fonts. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Creating a specific/Dedicated WML Runtime Node

Currently, WML does not allow scheduled runtime pod (enable pod affinity) on a dedicated node, Due to this we are increasing the Node Size where WML is running, based on the Load we need to scale accordingly. So we request to have a Dedicated Node...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Drop Databases Created by Implicit Mapping Tables

Problem statement/ pain point: We have started to use on-line reorgs without specifying the mapping table because v11 will generate one for you. Pretty cool. Db2 will create a database, DSNnext_db_identity_number, create a table space, create the ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Force the system to register specific characters as normal text

Characters which provide specific function within Safer Payments such as (),{},~,*,? cannot be interpreted as plain text for rule writing. Merchant names, for example, may enter the system with these characters.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Allow for the reference of Rule Name, Rule UID, and Rule Comment within a conclusion

Would like the ability to reference the Rule Name, Rule UID, or Rule Comment within a conclusion. For rule auditing, we may assign unique values to an overwritable input on a rule by rule basis. Safer Payments already inherently assigns a Unique V...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration