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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Pause Refresh

In Analysis there is a “Pause Refresh” button that is useful when building a report. This report stops the system from refreshing the data as you are busy making your field selection which saves time when building a report. Is there something ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the processing of large db2dsdriver.cfg files with a large number of entries.

Larger customers with a significant number of database servers and databases have created db2dsdriver.cfg files with 1000's of database entries. The current method for processing these to make a connection is not very efficient and can significant...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

Currently, any security group in Cognos has no way to search for users within the group. We'd like to have search capabilities within a security group. Since we cannot sort a group's membership, it makes it difficult to find certain individuals, e...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CATMAINT / ENFM REORG enhancement

CATMAINTs and ENFM REORGs causes major disruption if running alongside current workload. Continuous availabilty requirements means sign-off for planned DB2 outages (version upgrades or catalog reorgs) are very difficult to obtain/justify.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Merging of tables for physical partitioned databases to a single Kafka topic

We have data in IMS which is divided in multiple partitions and sored in different physical databases. So multiple tables are created like <table_1>,<table_2>,..........,<table_20> for the same dataset using CDA mapping tool. We ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide location information for Semantic roles returned

Need the offsets (location info) of the sentence returned from semantic roles in the returned data. All we get today is the full sentence.
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Custom URL within File connector HDFS

We need to import data files and folders as well as the file structure to IGC from Atlas HDFS, which is not possible when using Custom url.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Show Member Unique Names in Member Tree in dashboards (on hover or as property)

Provide property for every member in the tree in dashboarding using OLAP sources to see the MUN (member unique name). Show it also as popup on hover. Its absolutely crucial to see the mun to uniquely identify the right element as captions are not ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

group queries (e.g. in folders)

our customer often uses more than 20 queries in his reports and wants to group the queries (e.g. in folders) to locate relevant queries faster for easier maintenance of his reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration