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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.

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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Smart shared memory dumps

Other database products when dumping shared memory including context relevant information. E.g. which partition was being accessed. Contents of last buffer pool page being accesssed.If the buffers pools are massive e.g. hundreds of gigabyes then t...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Ability to Drill-down into the Billing Dashboard for watsonx.ai to the API Level by DAY/WEEK/MONTH - The ADMIN should have privileges to drill-down

USEFUL FOR CUSTOMERS LIKE Dun & Bradstreet Enables Customers of IBM using watsonx.ai to keep tabs on their SaaS Spend Helps customers to separate out their spend by Applications running on watsonx.ai [LLM's]
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Support Managed SQL in Azure

With a standard MDM install, be able to point MDM at a Managed SQL instance running in azure. There are a lot of customers using Azure for their infrastructure, and wand to use managed SQL instead of a specific SQL Version that needs maintenance.
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Salesforce Connector to use latest version of Axis

We identified (In collaboration with IBM Support) that the SalesForce connector in Real Time mode experiences an OOM error when using third-party components and processing large records with big fields. In order to fix this issue Salesforce connec...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Line between two different points on a Map visualization

Our client is looking to add the capability to see lines between one Latitude and another as well as one Longitude and another. Currently, we only have the option to add one Latitude and one Longitude. A great use case for this is for understand a...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

DDL alters to not disable auditing on tables.

DDL (See with Alter table) to not disable WITH AUDIT on tables.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Support ARM64 for GNM C++ libraries.

We are using Global Name Management 7 C++ libraries for Windows and Linux amd64 as part of our system. We'd like to port our solution to Linux arm64 (AWS Graviton based). As we understand, there currently there is no support for such an architecture.
11 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted

Terminate a long running txn on the MDM Operational Server when a set timeout is reached at the Client.

When MDM txns are executed on the Operational Server (getParty for example), the calling Client stays connected until receiving a SUCCESS or FAILURE response from the server. Once the response is received, the connection is closed. In the case whe...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Updating Timezone for Cognos Analytics service on CP4D

To align Cognos Analytics reports and logs timestamp with local time, for example from UTC to EST.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Submitted