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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Display document status for collection on Watson Discovery UI

Currently there is no way to track document progress for a collection on Watson Discovery UI. Sometimes documents are stuck for hours and there is no way to figure out what is happening in the background. I think there should be a very simple and ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Close Email notifications subject line should match open email notification subject line

We sort our emails by subject to easily see notifications for alerts and if they were closed. For critical alerts DMC uses this format for the email subject when an alert opens: <ConnectionName>: Critical Alert <AlertNumber> <AlertT...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Optim Compare enhancement for exporting results

better export options for Optim Compare result: export Optim compare result have export option only to CSV and txt. It will great to if there is an option to export compare reuslt to EXcel It will be great if colored format also exported along wit...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

The dashboard does not work while Puppet is turned on

The feature of uploading Excel data and using it as a data source in data module is very useful. We tried to use this Excel data to generate dashboard. Unfortunately, we always encounter errors of displaying the data on the dashboard. After a revi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Ability to identify PREPARE statement in SQL SEF rule

We would like to implement a SQL rule preventing SELECT * statements without a WHERE or LIMIT clause. Our rule works great, but is also activated when a new VT is created over a Db2 table. The engine also generate a SELECT * PREPARE statement. We ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Deployments not connection to Storage Volumes

Problem: Script assets promoted to a deployments space and then deployed does not connect to a storage volume. The workaround is to not deploy the assets. Benefit/value is to fully utilize the purpose of a deployment space.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Support for Microsoft SQL Server Migration

As part of our migration strategy to update all applications currently running with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (Cognos Command Center and Cognos Integration Server) , we ask for support in problem solving during the mig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Change OBDRX2AC Tracking From OBD Level To TS Partition Level

Currently after an ALTER ADD COLUMN has been executed on a partitioned TS , all subsequent reorgs go through the compression cycle until all partitions have been reorged within the same modify recovery range. For very large TSs with many partition...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow comments for alternate hierarchies

When bringing in an alternate hierarchy to the view, I'm unable to enter any comments
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration