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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add "Master Detail Relationships" to Singletons

Singleton is the only data container object in Report Studio that does not support master detail relationships. While it is usually possible to get around this limitation by using repeaters, some cases require drastic and complex work-arounds.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Oracle/ODBC connector stage performance

We have IBM InfoSphere Platform and thousands of DataStage Jobs. Lot of these jobs use Oracle and ODBC connector Stage to connect to Oracle DBaaS database. These stages are running queries against system tables frequently and causing performance d...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Add ability for OpenPages/Cognos administrators to add custom images to server

We need to include a custom diagram image for each assessment, which will then be displayed in the Cognos PDF report for that assessment. Currently, the PDF report is unable to use the image if uploaded/attached to an object within OpenPages (only...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
8 months ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

further options and possibilities for the bubble chart

Hello, if I look right, so now, it is only possible to assign some keyfigures to the X/Y-achsis and to the size. Is it in plan to extend the possibilities for this chart, e.g. to define the basis for the size, to define min and max values, to edit...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Warning when deleting any Dialog node that is used elsewhere (for Watson Assistant Dialog Skills)

Problem statement: In Watson Assistant Dialog Skills, you can currently delete a node that is used in the flow (i.e. if it is jumped to or if any of the children nodes are jumped to) without any warning. Real Life example of this issue: I recently...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Language of PAX interface

PAX plugin takes the setting from operating system. In my client's company, users in Germany have by default their Windows Display Language set to German and they cannot change it as they don't have administration access to their laptops. So then,...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Rule Trace to include line of code

Add the feature to show what Line Number the rule of code is in the Trace feature. This would just be a great convenience when troubleshooting calculations.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS with exception consideration

All DB2 customers use RUNSTATS. The RUNSTATS results are used by the DB2 optimizer to determine optimal access plans. In 99.999 percent of all cases this is not a problem. However, there are some objects (tablespaces / indices) for which a RUNSTAT...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Message for START DATABASE

Message for LOG MSTR of the command START DATABASE and STOP DATABASE.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration