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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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Download option for artifacts import summary

Hi Team, After importing the artifacts (business terms/ data classes or more) through csv file, the import summary didn't have the download option that client is expecting. Please add download option for import error report. Client imported the da...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Allow customization of line thickness on 11.1 visuals

I had ticket open with support to verify that this currently doesn't exist but it would be nice to be able to make the lines on 11.1 Line charts in reports thicker. The default is too thin for some users and there is no way to customize this prope...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Add IBM Cloud Private Path as a connection type in the Common Core

We would like to demonstrate by IBM TechxcHange in October 2024 how we can integrate watsonx.ai cloud service with IBM Cloud Workloads connected via the IBM private network. Workloads include VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL etc or anything workload ...
10 months ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

AD custom group traversing

When configuring custom AD groups in Db2wh, it seems like the product is not traversing the OU entirely. For example, we use a custom group for the BLUADMINGRP group which is in OU=global,ou=groups,ou=admingroup and we use a custom group for BLUUS...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Upgrade Bouncy Castle java library for SSL certificate avec with Extension Key Usage Critical

The library Bouncy Castle use into Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 don't support certificats with Extension Key Usage flag as Critical (Ex: TLS Web Authentification).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Adding Glossary and Lineage funktionality to Dashboards

Like in Report Studio, a user should be able to access the Business Glossary or lineage for a meassurement directly via context menu. In our case, all our meassurements are documented in Infosphere Government Catalog. Users are used to looking up ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release