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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.

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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Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics SSO documentation redo

Fix or communicate the proper and complete configuration for Single Sign On and Image browsing in Cognos 11. Especially using the Cognosisapi.dll and what the configuration needs to be to get this to work. There's been ~2800 hits in the CogNoise w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard

Cognos Analytics - Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard. In Report, When values in chart get over 5 digits, they become to small and hard to see. Especially in Pie Chart. The size of the chart also shrinks when changing "La...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Row Height Auto Adjust for Long Comments in Application Web Excel Worksheet/Active Form

We have an Excel worksheet/Active Form that has been uploaded to TM1 Application Web. There is a comments section for users to input text. When they input a long comment/description the text is wrapped and the row height adjusts to what has been i...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Filter by multiple facets values via Content Miner UI

Currently, when we want narrow down our analysis using the value of multiple facets, we need to select each facet value one by one on the Content Miner UI, This can be very cumbersome if we have a large number of facet values. So, we would like to...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

allow CREATE FUNCTION with RETURNS TABLE to use SQLPL

Today (in V12 <and maybe earlier>) it is possible CREATE FUNCTION using SQLPL and RETURN a value (of any data type). This is pretty cool.. and powerful. This is useful to perform complex SQLPL operations inside the UDF (LANGUAGE SQL). For ex...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration