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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.

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


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OOTB Integration API returns only Required attributes in response

When we request records from IBMPM via the integration API (fetch item/items from catalog), by default it only returns the fields that are marked as required in IBMPM. This is because it's returning the same set of fields that are visible in the U...
9 months ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Support Loading the Virtual Table maps above the bar

The module that handles the creation of virtual tables in DVM has 31-bit addressing. As a consequence, this module allocates its' memory below the bar of 2G. Especially when creating very large virtual tables, this can cause DVM running out of mem...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support zip64 format on Symphony

Unzip utility used on symphony does not support zip package with zip64. I can see it is currently version 5 from the open source software info zip. If IBM can update it to version 6 it will simply resolve the problem. https://infozip.sourceforge.n...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Delivered

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered

IDAA V7 - Insync - limit number of updates/inserts/deletes in one transaction

Some application areas do the mass updates with one commit causing replication (InSync) to fail for the Db2 Subsystem.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Delivered

System Audit Log to Track changes in Period & Company locking

System audit log to track who lock/unlock period or a company or changes in company status.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Ability to Split Documents At Ingest Time

It would be useful to be able to provide Discovery logic that would allow it to split one ingested document into multiple indexed documents. For example, make every paragraph or page a single Discovery document.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 7 Delivered

Exploration - Relationship Diagram Times Out

When an exploration relationship takes too long, it will throw a timeout error after exactly 120 seconds: "Your request to load the relationship diagram timed out". This prevents users from being able to see the Starting Points and derive insight ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to monitor Cognos Product roles vs. License Roles on Cognos

We use Cognos BI across our organization for reporting purposes; we use Cognos to deliver solutions to our clients; We have long time challenged with understanding how the Cognos product roles (Eg. System Admin, Authors, Consumer etc) mapped to Co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered