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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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Applications and Plans: Navigation Pane Collapse/Expand show selected asset

When using an application a user will shrink up the navigation panel to gain more space when planning in an asset/book. When finished with that asset/book, they then open the navigation panel again, and the first section is expanded, not the activ...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Needs more information

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Add Master Detail Relationship for Chart Visualizations in Cognos 11.1

Master detail relationships option found under DATA for Cognos analytics Chart visualisation is not available in Cognos 11.1 (especially 11.1 R5 version). The feature was available in Cognos 10. The feature is needed in Cognos 11.1, such that we c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

quick link for SSO

Quick link to choose the default SSO as login method. We avoid process of choosing the method (admin,LDAP or SSO) and clicking blue button "LogIn" to have automatic login via SSO.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Planned for future release