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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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Upload file permission

For compliance reasons, we need to have file upload permission that can be assigned to different roles. We need to limit Datastage job upload/deployment via web interface and other files. A user will need this permission to be able to upload any k...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create 'Folders' in 'Data source Connections' in admin portal

Please add ability to create 'folders' in 'Data source connections' in admin portal 'configuration tab'
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Limit the basic reporting framework models to current reporting period

OpenPages introduced the concept of basic reporting frameworks to make end user reporting easier. When reporting periods are used, the users are confused as they get reports with data from all reporting periods - it's not evident for the users to ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User searches by any word (except the first word) in the MDE asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the metadata enrichment asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'. Reproduction: Login to ICP4D => Navigate to Projects => All projects Any Project => Assets tab => Metadata...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Geographic Location properties for township, section, range, quarter when setting representation to Goegraphic

Currently when you load a file, create a date module from a file or do an exploration from a file you can't selection the Township, range, section or quarter as a geographic representation. So if I want to show the top producing oil and/or gas w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier

It is an expected behaviour of the simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier.
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

CLP command shoud read db2dsdriver.cfg

Db2 command line processor (CLP) shoud read the db2dsdriver.cfg (as CLPPlus does) in order to set particular parameter as current application compatiblity or current packageset when you need a different value from the the default. Thanks
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted