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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Add the concept of project Owner to complement existing project Creator

In addition to project “creator”, each project should have the opportunity to also maintain the current project “owner”. The concept of project owner is important in context of project Collaboration. A project creator may “leave” a project making ...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Better details in Audit log for Calculate ownership process

I have logged a call with IBM (TS006004206) regarding the details that the audit log show on the Maintain > company structure >calculate ownership as the report is not providing detailed enough information to establish what has changed or ha...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Need ability to load AOT while accelerator is stopped

Currently AOTs do not behave like other accelerated tables. "Normal" accelerated tables can be loaded while the accelerator is stopped. AOTs require the accelerator to be started in order for them to be loaded. We need the ability to load ATOs whi...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Dropping Primary Keys

Allow the following syntax for dropping a primary key : alter table table-name drop primary key;
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

external loader with mutiple schemas but same table names across the schemas

some users modeler use only the table names without a specifying the name of the schema when writing to a database. There are situations were there are multiple schemas with the table name. This situation would has been known to cause serious prob...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration