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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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Add varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)

We are frequently moving data between MS-SQL server and Db2. When data are moved from Db2 to MS-SQL there are no issues. But when data are moved from MS-SQL to DB2 we have frequent problems with varchar and nvarchar data types for data types where...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Index artifacts term relationships in global search

At the moment only Assets relationships with terms are returned in the global search. However we have relationships between governance rules, policies, classifications, data classes, reference data with terms that are not returned. We will need th...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Connection Monitor Percentage VS Numeric Static Value

In Monitoring Profiles>Alerts Monitoring>Connections , you can only set a static value for Critical and Warning Thresholds. I would like the ability to be able to set a percentage of a certain total. Those totals could come from the database...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

capability to access backend DB through portal customization

Certain pertinent system information needs to be disseminated to the users when they access the Cognos Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Key rotation of DEK

Facility to rotate DEK in addition to rotation of DMK. Currently db2 does support master key rotation however for banking regulations there is need of facility to rotate the DEK as well.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

FastLane for GDS messages

As a Master Data Management Administrator I want to have a meganism (FastLane) that can priorities messages from datapools So that updates on items that are in the (Selection) Workflow are handled directly.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration