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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Workspace: Ability to reset widgets needing update globally, tab.

I have several widgets on dashboards that are updated often.It would be great to have the ability to update all widgets that need updates, on a tab, or globally. This prevents a click storm having to hover, click on each widget.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How to retain report properties after copy and paste

When Copying or cut paste a report from one folder to another folder is overwrites the existing report properties. Such as it removing the preset prompt values, report output type, etc... We want to retain the existing report properties when a use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Autostats enhancement; create Runstats Profiles without COLGROUPs already covered by KEYCARD

AUTOSTATS creates RUNSTATS Profiles containing COLGROUPs which are already covered by KEYCARD. This leads to additional RUNSTATS activities and wastes resources.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy discovery news into another discovery collection

This helps in building unified knowledge graphs and will help in accessing all information in a single store
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Ability to suppress messages for Action Buttons that run a TI

Current versions of PAW pop up a running/complete/failed message when running a TI. This can be a nuisance for use cases where the TI may need to be used frequently. I would like to have the option to suppress these messages, similar to the messag...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

access to Denodo platform

Hello,I would need to interact with the Denodo platform, according to the compatibility matrix it is currently not a support platformCould you develop the connector for that platform in the next releases?Thank you
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Future consideration