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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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Provide Impala support in IBM Analytics Engine

Impala provides low latency and high concurrency for BI/analytic queries on Hadoop (not delivered by batch frameworks such as Apache Hive). Impala also scales linearly, even in multitenant environments.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Alert notify email From address setting different from general email settings

There are two places to set From Email Address / From Name in RTM settings One in Mail/DNS tab, one in Alerting/Thold tab. Why need to set in two separate places? Suggest use the one in Mail/DNS tab for all emails sent by RTM.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Consolidation of the Group restriction

After certain update, only users who have “write-access” to the Group Company can use “Consolidate with status/ by steps” functionality. This is inconvenient then all of the IFRS Transformation / Consolidation are carried out by single dep...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of “Log report - Import of External Data”

1) After importing flat files, when we preview the log report on discarded rows it would a lot more easier to find “problematic” row if not only account number was shown, but also its name (Account structure consists of more than 2k items, can...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to skip expand validation parameters in Cognos 11 silent/unattended installation as supported in UI mode.

We bundle Cognos 11 with our Product called Windchill. Cognos get installed in silent/unattended mode. Cognos 11 support distributed installation using Expand install option. On Expand install screen if we do not specify or enter invalid informati...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Methods to get Database and Table names in J/Foundation SQLDATA Interface

In J Foundation, for opaque type implementation, we need methods in SQLData interface implementation to get current database and table where opaque type column resides.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement callback functions in J/Foundation for transaction events

Checked the J/Foundation documentation as well and seems like unlike C-udrs, there is no API to register a local callback function when a transaction event happens (like rollback in your case). Implementing this callback functions registering in J...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

support all Authentication types supported by each data source

The data platform needs to provide support for all Authentication types supported by various data sources, such as SharePoint for example. Authentication types need to be exposed and selectable at the time a data source is defined since each sourc...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

support exporting the Access Control Link(ACL) associated with all content sent from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support for exporting the ACLs associated with all content sent from a data source. Providing this information is critical to ensuring end users of a Discovery application have permissions/access only to the cont...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

support merging metadata and document data into a single block of data

The data platform needs to provide support the ability to merge both document metadata and document content into a single block of data to send into Discovery
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration