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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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Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Able to copy data protection rule.

We would like to have the ability to copy data protection rule(s) within the UI.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

More details (metadata) inside virtualized table.

Add connection details to a virtualized asset. There is no easy way to see what connection or data source a virtualized asset is using.
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Upgrade to currently supported version of Spring

Master Data Management ships with very old, unsupported versions of Spring Framework. Financial regulators are asking financial institutions to eliminate packages that are no longer supported.
2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Need ability for Schema level 'Deny' in WQ where filtering/masking applied

Want to prevent developers from accessing base virtualized objects in WQ, however when row level filtering is applied to those objects, the users with 'selectin' privs on the WQ schema can see/select the assets directly
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Add terms in IKC to Automatic term assignment

Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for [automatic] term assignment’ –From IBM Documentation. Can we have the option to consider these for ...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review