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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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Remove Preview as default when editing Data Sets

It is difficult to edit data sets that source large volumes of data because default when editing is to preview the data set. It sometimes takes 30 minutes for our data sets to load data into preview mode before we can start editing our data set.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to create custom Dashboard Templates

Current templates provided with Cognos 11 are a good start. But it soon becomes necessary to create your own templates. There needs to be a way to create a variety of dashboard templates.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Cloud Pak for Data platform and services inherit underlying OpenShift Proxy settings

Cloud Pak for Data (and all Cloud Paks) deployed within OpenShift On-Premises Connected (non-air-gapped) clusters are often behind an HTTP PROXY. When installing the OpenShift Cluster, the HTTP PROXY variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy) a...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Out of date rebind listings in admin tool implementation and backout jobs

We request a new feature that would ensure the rebind listings were up to date at the point of execution e.g. dynamically check at run time for relevant packages with a bind date AFTER the analysis timestamp, generating a "missing binds" step to run.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add Ability to Specify Archive Datasets as Input for LAT Scan

A user will run a scan to create an archive file, or several scans over time, each creating a file. When he wants to revisit these, he has found he is only able to specify the start and end times in his window. It seems that LAT will read through ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Report Visualization v11.1 limitation (drill-through options and full-interactivitymandatory)

It is necessary to have drill-through options with the new visualizations 11.1. In the other hand Full interactivity is mandatory to use these new visualizations but it create to much confusion for users coming from the old versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions (13.x and 12.x) support

Companies from public and commercial sector are increasingly using PostgreSQL database to capture their data and many of them are asking for near real time data replication from this data source.
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Custom Colour for Conditional Formatting

Currently, when designing a report, we are trying to have a standard look and feel, and using colours to compliment the company's theme. While we have colour wheel available to change the colours on many object, conditional formatting colour is st...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

CDC should support Oracle 12c extended data types

Current CDC version (11.4) although supports Oracle 12, doesn't support what Oracle calls "extended data types":https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF55623 Basically on 12c Oracle allows longer maximums for types VARC...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered