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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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Status Bar for Git Integrated Project During Pull

We have noticed that when clients are using git integrated project that is fairly significant, there is no way to tell if the process has been completed yet. If there could be a way to show a status bar showing the progress during the pull, that w...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

PAW - Copy Member from Cube View

Users often want to copy the members from a cube view to reuse elsewhere. If you select members and right-click then copy, you copy then data in the view. This is particularly important with larger dimensions and zero suppressed views as users hav...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 certification for ISAM

The customer is looking for this technote to be updated with Cognos Analytics 11. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24022695 There current configuration is as follows: onfigured SSO from WebSeal 7.0.0.26 to Cognos v11.0.7 through IH...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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

Active reports .mht viewing alternative

With IE not supported soon, allow any browser to view standalone active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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

New TurboIntegrator/Rule function to obtain an Unique ID

In our on-premise application, a tremendous number of TI processes are executed simultaneously, requiring to be identified uniquely in the system in order to avoir locks. Historically we used a combination of 'RAND()' and other information to gene...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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