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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.

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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Add Malay (either Indonesia or Malaysia) language

Will implement in Q4 since the largest language used in South East Asia is the Malay language, this should be implemented. Once translator exist for this language, we can expand to other Watson services Malay (/məˈleɪ/;[5] Malay: Bahasa Melayu بها...
about 6 years ago in Language Translator (Archived Jan 24 2024) 3 Delivered

kafka connector should be able to read only committed messages

Our Kafka Producer writes messages on a Kafka topic acting transactionally and it could rollback the transaction when certain events occur. As of now, the behaviour of the Kafka connector is to read also uncommitted messages (see case TS003289786)...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Can't easily select summaries only in a hierarchy

With the new IBM PA Edit Set, it only allows us to keep or choose Leaf Level with the Attributes and Selector tools. If we could even just have “<>” as the choice for the Level tool, we could get back missing function.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Make charts show data drop zones by default

Charts hide the drop zones by default, but dragging an item over the chart will automatically show the drop zones.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Temporal table support for column-organized tables

Currently, a column-organized table cannot be a temporal table because a PERIOD SYSTEM_TIME or PERIOD BUSINESS_TIME declaration is not supported in column-organized tables. This prohibits temporal data management with BLU. We request that column-o...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Delivered

Data replication CDC can't support Oracle AFD(ASM Filter Dirver)

When Oracle is 12c (or above) and configured with AFD(ASM Filter Driver), InfoSphere CDC can't read asm logs correctly
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Admin tool MASK for KEY LABEL

Admin Tool Masking feature can benefit from a process where in the KEY LABEL can be removed from a table definition. It is quite likely that test versions of production tables will not have a requirement for encryption at rest. SO when creating DD...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Security Settings for Services based on User Groups and/or LDAP

Administering users can be quite hard when every single user must be set manually. Especially in large environments. In CP4D user groups can not be used to control access to services like Cognos, PA, Discovery and so on. It would be lot easier, if...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Alternate Hierarchy Limitation: Is there plan to enhance report building and performance when it comes to using alt. hier in PAX?

Currently, only limited to Quick & Exploration. Although Quick is considered as static, it breaks when there are changes to any dimensions and/or alternate hierarchies. This is so frustrating to users. Is there an alternate for using alternate...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQE-DA...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered