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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Menu items in multiple places on Task based UI

We have some objects that are used in multiple modules. Therefore we require some objects to be listed in more than one place on the menu system. On the standard UI this is how it works but in the Task based UI only the first occurrence of the obj...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Adjusting the placement position of standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Rules for Creation Views to allow for multiple active creation views (New Task Based UI)

The ability to create creation views based on a profile
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Planned for future release

Provide capability to set DSSIZE for implicitly created LOB Auxiliary Tablespaces

Currently an implicitly created LOB Auxiliary TS DSSIZE is set to 4G and does not adhere to the zparm IMPDSSIZE or the base TS DSSIZE. We would like the capability to influence the default DSSIZE for LOBs.This would also make it consistent with th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

wordpress, drupal, cpanel, etc plugins

With the push to provide easier mechanisms to share Cognos content, I would like IBM to develop plugins for popular website, CRM, and e-commerce providers. The plugin should allow the website owner to define the credentials used, the target conten...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to copy collection configuration and data from one environment to another

The backup and restore script in Watson Discovery allows you to copy all collection configuration and data from one environment to another. However, it is not possible to copy date for a specific collection. This feature is useful when collections...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Need a crawler in Watson Discovery to crawl documents from Confluence

Confluence is a popular repository that many companies use. Currently there is no option to crawl Confluence documents.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

The Watson Discovery Web crawler should be able to crawl sites protected by ForgeRock Authentication SSO.

Currently the web crawler is not able to crawl sites protected by complicated protocol like SAML or OAuth, hence ForgeRock SSO Authentication does not work.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted