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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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identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary colum...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove underline from text objects (especially for Hyperlink class)

I would like to have the option in the Report Module to remove underlines from text objects (Hyperlink classes). As of now we only have the option to enable underline for text objects.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pop-Up message "This will discard all data you have entered" when no performed changes

In MER Message Edit Page when a message is opened and then select the quit button, there is a Pop-Up message "This will discard all data you have entered. Proceed?". This is happening for MER Queues with 'DISPLAY' purpose also. Request: Could MER ...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Pls make GoOffice signon to formbased secured Cognos Server via double click on environment tree, just like ribbon bar

Problem Description: GoOffice Signon behaviour inconsistent - Signon using RibbonBar = OK - Signon using Right Click on Environment = OK - Double Clicking Environment = NOK Problem Solution: Feedback from dev: This is by design and currently it ca...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Client Manager Change All Clients

When we use the multi-client manager, it only changes the classic clients (Designer, Director and Administrator). We would like it to change all clients including IBM InfoSphere Information Server Console and IBM InfoSphere Information Server Mana...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to move entity values

It'd be useful if it was possible to move entity values and their synonyms from one entity to another, in the same way that you can select training questions for intents and move them to another intent. This would make it much easier when making c...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Shorter Suffixes for from precompiler generated COBOL-variables

In older versions of DB2 the COBOL-variable for VARCHAR-columns was:nn VARCHAR-COL1-X 49 VARCHAR-COL1-LL 49 VARCHAR-COL1Today the suffixes generated by the Db2-precompiler are much longer and lead to problems if the column-name, which was extended...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Services and TM1 Application at the same time

Since the Upgrade from PAL 2.0.7 to PASS 2.0.59, we are not able to use TM1web and TM1 application at the same time. An action in TM1web causes a timeout in TM1 Application.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data masking

Hi, We are getting the requirement to mask the data that CDC is publishing into target kafka topics. Currently, we find this feature is not available. It would be great, if you can plan and add this feature to IIDR CDC. Thanks, Kotteeswaran
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration