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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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Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter at the same time . For example when copy pasting from Excel.
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Application registration or service principal

While connecting/setting up data sources for Watson Discovery, currently the only option is to include userid/credentials - this is not suitable in enterprise solutions (like our case) where we have multi-factor authentication enabled for userids....
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Trusted Context should be usable with static SQL

Trusted context or trusted connection is a security feature, which enables customers to differentiate between applications connecting to a database, based on whether they originate from a trusted or from a NON trusted client system.This works pret...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Planned for future release

Move the 'Edit Data Item Label' button left in toolbar. This option is selected many times more than others (such as sort).

In building many reports I must change most of the field labels on the actual report the user gets. I must select the three ellipses and in the drop down select the 'Edit Data Item Label'. This is time consuming. This is used much more often than ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to not offer public tables when importing data from a database

This issue is also described here: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/464796/list-of-tables-when-importing-from-oracle-database.html This might only concern Oracle databases, but possibly others as well. In SPSS one can import data from...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

database function manual

The database functions manual of all database specification does not explanation currently Modeler manuals. Since how to use is not know, Modeler User is confusion. Please explanation the database functions of all database specification in the Mod...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Remove entries in the archived report tab that have been deleted from the external repository.

Reports that were deleted form Filenet P8 still display in the the Cognos content store. The date and time the deleted report were run are still viewable from the archived report portal, though an output is not available.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

DVM Inserts into SQL DateTime2 column

Inserts into Datetime2 datatype column is not supported via DVM. APAR number PH34676 has been opened for this. Opening this AHa icket to track APAR.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration