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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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Data Execution Prevention (DEP) disabled - RFE raised for TS008415900 case

Hi Team, As part of security review, below vulnerability has been observed - The application "DSDesign.exe" executable was not using the DEP protection. Since DEP is disabled, arbitrary exploit codes can be written and executed from memory locatio...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Onconfig parameter to disable automatic registration of datablades.

In high volume environments automatic registration of datablades can cause too much contention and impact processing.We would like a new onconfig parameter to disable the automatic registration of datablades.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow hierarchical view to select objects

Some objects can be naturally represented in a hierarchical view (for ex. Structures, Business Entities, etc.). In OpenPages today it is possible to create new elements in the tree, associate elements to objects, etc., by selecting them from a lis...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Improve Cognos Analytics integration with Salesforce

Current state IBM Cognos Analytics ability to integrate with / pull metadata from Salesforce is extremely limited. Unable to select tables/schemas using new "Manage" administration functionality or create data modules using Salesforce data. Legacy...
about 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Service for Users to Create Japanese Morpheme Dictionary/Japanese Stop-words Dictionary for Every Account at Any Time.

Japanese morphological analysis seems very difficult because we write the document in Japanese without spaces(e.g. 私の友達は食べることが大好きです。).That’s why my idea is to create Japanese morpheme dictionary/Japanese stop-words dictionary for every account at ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Webpage Widget to Embed Report - Run Report Full Screen Option

When using the webpage widget within the dashboard to embed a report on the dashboard, the report is not full screen (shows the cognos menu bars). It would be nice to maximize the report size by running full screen. An option in the widget propert...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in most...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Include notifications for recent changes (API Connect v10)

This is for API-Connect v10 (OVA install). In v5, there was a feature where one could view a notification bell in the top right corner when logging into the cloud manager or api manager that would show recent changes (Ex: xyz api was published, et...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release