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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Requesting for IBM Bluemix Watson Text-to-speech supports Mandarin and Cantonese

IBM Bluemix Watson Text-to-speech service supports Mandarin and Cantonese. IBM Bluemix Watson Speech-to-Text support Mandarin, it's logical that Text-to-speech support Mandarin. Meanwhile, there is a niche market on STT/TTS for Cantonese, which ...
over 7 years ago in Speech Services 3 Functionality already exists

Custom Image for Welcome Page

Add a custom image file (corporate logo, for example) to the Cognos login, welcome or landing pages. The on-premise version allows for formal customers to load customizations, themes, extensions, welcome and login views to the Cognos Analytics ser...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Find what Dialog Nodes jump to this node

When using Watson Assistant search, we can find node names, but we can't find which nodes have a jump to a particular node. This would be helpful to know what nodes are jumping to a particular node. This could be implemented in one or the other (o...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Selecting other data module in reporting

Selecting other data module in reporting: make it possible to have two data modules in the report module next to a package
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration