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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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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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User searches by any word (except the first word) in the MDE asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the metadata enrichment asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'. Reproduction: Login to ICP4D => Navigate to Projects => All projects Any Project => Assets tab => Metadata...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Support XLookup on TM1Web Websheet

XLookup function is getting very popular these days in Excel community, Planning Analytics is a tool that embrace Excel, therefore this function should be supported.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide visibility to Subscription Schedules and Executions

Subscription functionality in Cognos Analytics could be a powerful tool to allow users to tailor/schedule reports to fit their needs. However, there is no tool/report/etc. that provides visibility into the Subscriptions (and link to the actual rep...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to terminate of SLB after timeout if HSM doesn't answer Flashcopy-request fast

I would like to have an timeout in DB2 for SLB-processing!If HSM is in error it may be able to accept the Flashcopy-request but not to fulfill it. To prevent 00D70044 there should be an option for a DB2-internal timeout of SLB-processing.If this t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add option in db2look to not extract LBAC every time

All of the LBAC definitions are extracted and printed every time the -e option is specified. If one just wants the DDL for a single table, all of the LBAC definitions are printed, even if that table has nothing to do with LBAC. A -nolbac option wo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 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...
over 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.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration