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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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Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Warning when deleting any Dialog node that is used elsewhere (for Watson Assistant Dialog Skills)

Problem statement: In Watson Assistant Dialog Skills, you can currently delete a node that is used in the flow (i.e. if it is jumped to or if any of the children nodes are jumped to) without any warning. Real Life example of this issue: I recently...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Improve Smart Document Uderstanding processing time

Real-life scenario: the user uploads a document and the extracted info are needed as input for another tool or ML model (real time scoring is needed). The customer experience suffers from the waiting time. The processing time of one document is to...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

“Select & Search prompt” is not available when using a Data Module source

When creating a new report based on a Data Module, users lose the Select and Search prompt, which is available in a Framework Manager package source. Please refer to the attached which also contains other enhancement requests.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
9 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

When exporting snapshot or slice of a PAfE (PAX) Excel workbook from PAW : add the possibility to not include hidden sheets

When integrating a PAX / PAfE workbook in a PAW book, we can go to Export menu and select Excel Snapshot or Excel Slice, but the number of exported sheets is much more than expected, due to the existence of hidden sheets in the workbook. We need a...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Integrate Cognos Analytics with SAP Hana

We are looking for a solution to integrate Cognos to SAP Hana as data source connection.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration