IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    Allow use of wildcards in Search requests

    Allow use of wildcard characters in "search" text strings. The allowable characters could emulate those defined by Google (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en)
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to disable or customize stemming

    Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
    over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

    Add a feature in account management to see which user group a user belongs to

    I can take a look at the user group to see which user belongs to that group. However, there is no way to see which user group a user belongs to. So you need to contact the user and ask them to take a look at their settings. Please add a feature in...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

    Provide a documented and supported procedure to generate ddl (db2look as SP - like db2lk_generate_ddl)

    db2lk_generate_ddl is a stored procedure that provides functionality to generate DDL via SQL (similar to db2look which is a tool as db2llok cannot be executed througha SQL client tool. This function already exists but is not documented and I am no...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

    We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

    Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

    When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

    Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

    For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 1

    PAW Synchronise Action Button parameters with Sheet Selections

    This has already been requested by four different people: Aug-2019 PAOP-I-490 59 Votes Oct 2019 PAOP-I-530 10 Votes Nov 2019 PAOC-I-77 4 Votes May 2020 PAOC-I-77 4 Votes TOTAL 77 Votes From browsing the list of requests, this means that this reque...
    over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

    Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

    In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to disable users from disassociating records

    This configuration feature restricts users from potentially creating orphans
    7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

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