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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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Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a rich text object similar to Inline Guideance for displaying rich text in the standard format not highlighted in a blue box

It would be useful to have a text object that could be added to the view in a similar manner to the inline guidance object, but it displays the text in the standard way (black on grey background) so that you can add meaningful text to display to t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API

We need the ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API. We anticipate to update values very frequently doing manually through UI is not efficient.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Support DESC keyword for describing schema objects

Simple request: Support the DESC keyword commonly used by other databases as a synonym for the wordy 'INFO COLUMNS FOR'. This will help new users to Informix as well as being less to type for everybody else.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Add Table Action Truncate for BigQuery Connector

On CP4D DataStage NextGen the table actions available for BigQuery connector currently are Append and Replace. According official docs: Method Description Append Append creates the table if the table doesn’t exist. If the table already exists, no ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Workflow: Extending the concept of auto start to also encompass auto-transition from one stage to another

In a similar way to auto-start, there will be instances where we would want the workflow to move onto another stage when the conditions and validations are met, without the user having to do this. Examples: - If using the Custom API to create o...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Enhance message 00F30034 with plan name

Enhancement of message 00F30034 with plan name in question. The message text today is"The authorization ID associated with this connection is not authorized to use the specified plan name or the specified plan name does not exist." Please add a va...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

PA Workspace: Search for elements in rows of a exploration

In explorations in PA Workspace, it is not possible to search for single elements, when the dimension is used in Rows. There you can only select and search for Sets and Levels. It would be helpful to be able to search for elements in every selecti...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration