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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.

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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Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Expand Above instead of Expand Below when you want to Expand Above instead of Expand Below

In PAX Exploration views - Expand on rows with a TM1 subset that is set to “EXPAND ABOVE”, will expand below… should expand above. Development have stated that this is not a defect. By using the expand above in Architect it sets the subset t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import journals while reporting takes place in a form

This enhancement regards Error 47 "The form containing the account is locked for update" inside 'Import of External Data' report. In a reporting process countries report their data in forms (REPO) while group accounting performs adjustments in jou...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alias for page/context elements in a drill through view.

There is no alias display for page/context members in a drill through view on PA Workspace Local release 27.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC support for SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data between SQL Server databases. However, we would like to improve read scale for our applications using SQL Server AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups. However, CDC does not support databases ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Connector to URL addressable data source

Connect to a data source which is URL addressable to catalog it.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Twitter Connector

Connector which allows to access twitter data/APIs
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Need a mechanism to hold an individual transaction for vetting by Safer Payments, while allowing other transactions to pass

This would work with Safer Payments to allow valid transactions to flow through FTM for processing, while only holding back individual transactions requiring more time for Safer Payments/fraud team to investigate.
about 3 years ago in FTM for Corporate Payment Services / Transaction Processing - Validation, Enrichment, Routing 2 Functionality already exists

Display custom attribute with titles for Value and Description

Display custom attribute with titles for Value and Description. Without titles, it is hard for users to figure out which is value and which is description of the value.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Control of the API version on Bluemix Interface

Watson Conversations offers not only the API but also quite a complete interface that can be used by logging in Bluemix. In many projects, when business and experts train the system, they use the Bluemix interface. It is more or less intuitive an...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration