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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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MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Implement custom colors in Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 reporting.

The reports are valuable, but the current color templates don't allow users to display critical, high, medium and low issues in a graphical format that is meaningful. For example, critical issues show in blue color, which doesn't allow leaders &am...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Make OpenPages reporting Dashboards visible in MS Office Desktop Plugin and exportable to PDF & PowerPoint

The reporting Dashboards aren't visible via the MS Office Desktop Plugin. It would also be valuable to be able to export them to PDF & PowerPoint.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support limit (first xx) on delete statements

Currently limiting the number of rows to be deleted like "delete first 500 from " is not supported.Only supported in simple selects.To define which 500 records are deleted, this might be an alternate solution:delete from where ID in (select first ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow the confidence threshold criteria for disambiguation to be configurable

Currently WA (premium) uses a calculation of confidence within 55% of top intent for disambiguation candidates. This is too sensitive for some training sets (the range increases with higher confidence levels, triggering disambiguation more often t...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A means of checking who are the current active users in qmf_for_websphere

Because otherwise how do you measure how many users in the organization are using this product ? In case they don't , you don't need to maintain it anymore (users might prefer using qmf for tso )
11 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Users can be select schema so as to choose the target tables of ETL connector stage easily.

Currently users should input the table's name so as to select the target table of ETL connector stage. It is very costly for users to input the full name of target tables without any guidelines such as schema information.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration