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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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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.

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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 official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Need to go beyond Flat model for Entites and Dictioraries. Build custom Ontologies.

Right now we have a flato model for Entities, that is, by the way, not so well paired with dictionaries. Why don't we have the possibility to design taxnomy trees, and define 'synonyms' for each node expression (this will substitute Dictoinaries)...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Show more info on asset in the Knowledge Catalog

In general the information shown on any asset in the Knowledge Catalog UI is fairly minimal, both on the overview page as well as the details page. Consider adding: - size information for files - record count information for data base tables etc...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel compatibility issue

I am running a solution on Cognos 10.2 using the Excel plugin COGNOS CAFE FP4 10.2.2 32 BIT. This plugin is not compatible with Office 365 which is being rolled out now in the company.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Function to move sysadmin database

Product : IDS 12.10We like to have a build APIto move sysadmin database from 1 dbspace to another.Currently we are using execute function task ("reset sysadmin",);And this will reset the entire database. We found out lately, multitenant database i...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Standard errors of skewness and kurtosis are all the same for a set of variables

Modeler 18.1.1About those values of "Skewness Std. Err" and "Kurtosis Std. Err" of "Data Audit" node.In the current specification,the standard errors for these two statistics are the same for all of my fields, regardless of the values of the skewn...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

PAX - Add Open Recent Files to Open Icon on Ribbon or within Open Window

Within PAX, we are requesting the ability to open recent files from the Open icon on the ribbon or within the Open dialog window. If you exit PAX after opening a report and log back in, you are always forced to navigate the folder structure from t...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Visualization mouseover/drillthrough support of recursive parent child treemap (starburst, icicle, etc) internal nodes

Add support for mouseover tooltips and drillthrough functionality on internal nodes of recursive parent child treemap Cognos Visualization charts (such as starburst, icicle, etc) as is already working on the leaf nodes of same charts. Not having t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration