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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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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...
over 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...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change type of element in PAW Dimension Editor

It is not possible to change the type of an element from eg Numeric to String in the Dimension Editor in PAW. This is possible in Perspectives.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Usability of copy row and copy cell in multiedit

Hi,sometimes users have mistakes when copy and paste cell or row and loosing data.And it would be good if "Copy Cell" and "Copy Row" will have some space between each others or add some access to role to manage this options.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Include query expansions in the new WDS usage logs

The new logs API call is very useful, however, it is missing the query expansion functionality to see what query actually got executed by WDS, instead of the NLQ coming through API. This is especially needed in client applications to understand wh...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Percentage view in stacked bar chart; display 0 as "zero" instead of distribution to 100%

In the screenshot, the number zero for the year 2035 in the stacked bar chart is split to 100% in the percentage view (each of the four members gets an equal split of 25%).The requirement would be to display the year 2035 as a 0 / white area in th...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future 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...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom functions on RulesConsole

Hi, The idea comes from case # TS007161947. There is a RulesConsole page in Persona UI. Now, while construction of "if statements" (see the screenshot) there is possibility to select function, however users can't code their own function for any at...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 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...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration