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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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Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy with option Changelimit and Template switching based on changed pages

Whe are using the TEMPLATE SWITCHING with a LIMIT 16 MB in a Copy with option CHANGELIMIT. The allocation of copies is made during the utilinit and is based on 10% of the HI-U-RBA and not on the pages to be copied. In this way some very large copi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove need to prefix numbers in import template with an apostrophe to stop them getting converted to decimals on import

If numbers in the import template are not prefixed with an apostrophe they get converted to decimals or exponential format if the number is large when the template is imported. Having to put that single quote in multiple attributes on the template...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Ability to copy discovery news into another discovery collection

This helps in building unified knowledge graphs and will help in accessing all information in a single store
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow value rules to be triggered by onchange events rather than Saving

We have a lot of attributes in our primary spec where the value is determined by the value selected in another field using a value rule. If the value in the first field is changed, the value in the second field is only updated when a user clicks S...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Allow calling Watson AI APIs in-process rather than as a remote API call

A frequent ask is to allow calling the Watson AI APIs in the same process. For example, if you have a spark or pandas dataframe containing a news story per row, if would be great if each row could be mapped to a local Watson AI function call rathe...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Simplify shadow tables replication

Integrate the CDC engine in the DB2 engine and allow to configure the replication with SQL commands.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

List node & db directory using SQL

Create two new functions to list the content of the database and node directory.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

In Import template, narrow results as value is typed for attributes which use Enum_Ranges

When selecting a value from a drop down list in the import template, it does not narrow the results to the value you are typing. For example if you had a range of values from AAA to ZZZ and you start typing J it doesn't skip down to the J values. ...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration