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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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Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Hide option for dispatcher URL from past activities under My Schedules and Subscriptions

My Schedules and Subscriptions menu item is typically allowed for all consumer users with scheduling capability. Under Past activities window, report run details shows target dispatcher (URL) report run against, which shows app server name/IP and ...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Support list in field mapping for MongoDB Lookup Stage

Customer has raised a request to specify list (array) in the “SDC field” while defining Document to SDC Field Mappings in MongoDB atlas lookup processor stage. Usually we specify field names for mapping but here we require to fetch the records whe...
11 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Reorg Index materialization

For REORG INDEX pending alter materialization, the utility performs a DRAIN ALL on the target index before starting the SWITCH phase, and then relies on DDL/Dependency logic to invalidate all the affected plans/packages/DSC...etc in the middle of ...
11 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Upload PDF Files in PAW / PAfE

In TM1 Architect there is the option to upload PDF files via “ Right-click on an existing application -> Add file...” to upload PDF files. These PDF files can then be downloaded via TM1 Web or via Perspectives. We could not find a way in PAW or...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
about 1 month ago in Db2 2 Submitted

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release