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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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Recognize csv formatted file, even if the file extension is missing/wrong

CSV formatted files are central to inputting data into Cognos Dashboard Embedded. If a user creates or is provided with a file where the extension was left off, or different, Cognos Dashboard Embedded will not allow you to import it (e.g. consider...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should produce more accurate filter factors (to better optimize queries)

Today, when I have a query with an equals predicate and also an "IN LIST" predicate and both apply to the same table and when I have correctly collected multi-column frequency distribution stats for the two columns involved with these two predicat...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add default entities like location and amount

The Watson conversation service has the ability to identify both numeric digits and numeric text. I would like the NLU service to have these default entities supported so that I can train models in Knowledge studio with both text and digits. Curre...
about 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 2 Planned for future release

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow more options on -MODIFY TRACE command

We sometimes get clobbered with processes that generate lots of Db2 accounting records to the point where SMF is overwhelmed in collecting/offloading them. We are able to identify the offending authid with our online monitor, but until we can cont...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ease use of ROS in high volume transaction system utilizing DGTT on Primary db

Trying to utilize ROS to offload reports and heavy queries from Primary Database. Hence we should be able to scale the workload on the Primary, once these are moved away form here. But does not work out for us. Queries are getting forced off often...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Is a defect

LDAP SSL Keystores

LDAP SSL Cert Format. Please provide additional formats besides cert8.db and key3.db. Preferable .jks or .kdb.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make auditing Dashboard usage more straight forward

Currently, when looking at the audit logs around dashboard usage, a single run of a dashboard will show up multiple times, once for every widget on the page. There is no way to determine how often a dashboard is run without getting extremely infla...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flexible OpenPages installation options

Currently the OpenPages Installer runs a series of pre-validation checks with minimal optionality to ignore these checks. A few examples: Forced to install to install (or at least pass validation) OpenPages & Cognos, even if I only want to ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration