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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Index performance, Provide the indicator show that need to do reorg

Provide the indicator (index level,the percent of pieces) to show it need to do index reorg.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

ADBTEP2 - Provide an SQL ERROR LIMIT' parameter (similar to DSNTEP2/MAXERRORS)

We have recently started to use ADBTEP2 for its added benefits. When used as a dynamic SQL processor (i.e. in lieu of DSNTEP2, for instance), the names of 4 of the 5 instream parameter names and format are identical to those found in DSNTEP2. The ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide direct access for Planning Analytics Local to Cognos Analytics packages and Data Modules

Please provide method for direct access for Planning Analytics to Cognos Analytics Data Modules, Data Sets and BI Packages. It used to be available through TM1 Package Connector, which is no longer supported. Last version of TM1 Package Connector ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visual Studio Add-Ins - Server Explorer - Data Connections - Equivalent Functionality to IBM Data Studio

Our shop is primarily .NET development and our application developers do much of the creation and management of database objects on DB2 z/OS (and soon Db2 - fka LUW). The VSAI Server Explorer feature is lacking much of the functionality of IBM Dat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

capability to access backend DB through portal customization

Certain pertinent system information needs to be disseminated to the users when they access the Cognos Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change font size and font colour in the Web Chat integration for WA

While working on a chatbot, using the web chat integration, I found that there's limited things one can customize to change the look and feel of a chatbot. The function updateCSSVariables only admits very few CSS variables. I think that font size ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration