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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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Switch integrated Watson Assistant by user locale

Hi team, We are investigating to provide chatbot in multi language. According to the following manual, Watson Assistant recommends users to switch assistant by language. https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/assistant?topic=assistant-assistant-language Howev...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

A New Parameter for TM1 URL API for Websheets: specifying sheetname in URL to reference target sheet (not just target book)

With TM1 URL API, in addition to specifying the workbook(excel file name), it would be very beneficial to specify the sheet name that the URL should direct to. This feature could be used in various cases where there are multiple sheets in a book: ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for an option in the syntax of a (compiled scalar) SQL function to use RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).

Thread reuse and High performance DBATs are dependent on packages being bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). But, there is no provision for the package associated with compiled SQL scalar functions to have RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) as an option. I have been ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Manager Automatic Prompt Fill In

With the previous 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, the application would automatically fill in prompts so we didn't have to edit prompts for every report. That feature is missing in the Cognos Analytics version.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to turn off DB2 security

Could we get a ZPARM that allows the deactivation of DB2 security in favor of a security product (ie. RACF). It would be nice if RACF was the ONLY authoritative source for security requests. Currently if a result isn't returned by RACF, DB2 checks...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Give the option to make an index "invisible" to DB2

Sometimes, when I have added and index, I have had some surprises in the optimizer using that index when it should not. I would like a quick way to make the index "invisible" to the optimizer and make it not eligible for access paths until I speci...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add new Currencies in OpenPages

At Intesa SanPaolo we have a requirement to use some currencies that are not available in the OpenPages list. IBM support has confirmed that this needs to come as an enhancement request. Here they are: BGL, DEM, ECS, GRD, ITL, RUR, TRL, XEU; compl...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Q Capture/Db2 LUW: Replicate DROP COLUMN-operations

If the source table of an active subscription is altered by a DROP COLUMN operation, there is high risk of continuous data corruption on that table due to incorrect reading of Db2's transaction log entries from that time on. The current workaround...

Allow Signing of Any Outbound Message with an Local Authenication (LAU) Key

Payment message security and integrity is important and network participation rules continue to involve and add stricter enforcement rules deeper into a bank's processing systems. FTM solutions are a critical step in processing payment messages an...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration