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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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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

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

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

Recover from bad cookies during login process

Refer to case #TS000127886 and TS000083033 When Cognos Analytics encounters a bad cookie (in this case created by SecureAuth ... the cookie name has spaces in it), it acts like it got a good cookie which it was not able to use, and informs the use...
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

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manage DSNX881I messages in DB2 generated from IDAA healthcheck report

Each time the IDAA healthcheck runs (multiple times a day) every DB2 connected to the box reports on all the problems including all the issues already reported previously but not yet fixed. This can mean a hundred or more emails generated daily by...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

No Way to disconnect specific instance in PAX

We can connect to different instances in PAX by choosing the instances but there is no way to disconnect from any specific instance. Currently, the disconnect option disconnects from all the existing connected instances in PAX.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration