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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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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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Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

form Lock enhancement

Currently on every monthly closing we need to run DB optimization for form lock issue and waste lot of closing time
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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

Repair Catalog of Indexspaces

After using DSN1COPY to copy table- and indexspaces from one subsystem to another it is possible to do a REPAIR CATALOG to update catalog informations about RBA format, Row format and versions. There is no possiblity to repair index RBA format. We...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IN and NOT IN in transformer

In parallel transformer(Datastage) IN and NOT IN are not supported,it is being implemented by no of OR and/or OR and NOT operator. Also if any dynamic conditions need to be provided from a single parameter it can not be possible.So IN and NOT IN n...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

New system user creation, password reset and configuration change activities

Our pain point is that we need to perform re-deployment activity for container{pod} with downtime approx 15-20 min for specific use cases. These are as follows: 1. Users. Creation of new system user and resetting of existing user's password. 2. ...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Screen should remain in full screen when moved from one dashboard to other using drill through

As a user if I select the full screen option , it should remain in that mode until i change it. Currently, when I select a full screen and navigate it to a different dashboard using drill through, the full screen mode will be exited and I need to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Business Partners are looking for Cognos Adhoc reports open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool by default

As a part of Query Studio sunset in Cognos 11.2.2 Edge browser, Business partners are migrated their QS reports to RS reports .Business Partners are looking for Migrated Cognos Adhoc reports (RS) should open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool b...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration