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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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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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Dashboard: No Limit on displaying data values in the list on filter.

Currently in dashboard, there is a limit of displaying all data values in list on filter.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Search All My Content Folders with Search Engine in Cognos 11

Would it be possible to have the Cognos 11 search engine look in everone's My Content folder to find objects. Right now, it can only searh Team Content and my own My Content.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Version Control

Version control was a great feature, but people who use this UI aren't developers and they generally don't know they needed a back up until they make a mistake they don't know how to undo. I recommend that we keep snapshots of the client workspace...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run CDC datastage/transaction stage on z/OS, for example in a container (zCX)

It would reduce operational complexity (manage components on multiple platforms by multiple teams), increase the resilience, availability. We also think it will reduce the cost.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Lock an account for input in the account structure.

We would like the option to lock an account for input or import of data directly in the account structure. Account develops over time. Some accounts might not be valid to use over time. It might not be possible to merge these accounts, include the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration