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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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Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics and SecureAuth SSO

We require Cognos to allow us login using SecureAuth IdP provider, which uses browser authentication. This is a must for our users to connect to Snowflake from Cognos. At this time, Cognos server does not allow a browser to open and allow the SSO ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow use of Wildcards in RLF (Governor)

Hallo, we are using reactive governing. The SQL statements are restricted overtechnical userids or over collectionsWe woulld like to be able to use Wildcards in the selection of the criteria,
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use visual recognition to analyze images in PDF's

When a user indexes a document there could be a large number of images that could have relevant information. As a user I would like to see those images added as metadata to the indexed document to make the WDS service smarter.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

The search bar on the catalog should show exactly matched contents only

***This is an idea about the search bar on the catalog.*** ***This is not an idea about the black search bar on top of the CP4D WEB console window.*** <Background> User register some Business Terms and Tags using Japanese language in the C...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Set Display Selected... by default on the Associate dialog box

Now, on the task-focused UI, users have to click on the icon (with 3 dots) to display all associations (via the Display Selected... option).
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Customer to expand or compress report widgets in rum time on Dashboards or Report Studio

Some of the customers are looking to have some of the individual widgets or containers to be expanded run time and eventually compress in case the details or the dashboard is expanding beyond the screen width and height
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reading data from message hubs like kafka in reports or dashboards directly

Customer is looking for a functionality to read real time data from their production line into charts directly and then persist in the database.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parametarized URL, passing data source connection as Store ID

With parametarized URL it is possible to pass report object via report path or Store ID, but it is not possible to pass data source connection as Store ID.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration