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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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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 Row Headings or the option to Add Row Headings for all PAfE report types.

Currently the reports in PAfE do not show headings for the row dimensions. This is usually OK if there are only 1 or 2 row dimensions but for transaction type reports where there may be several Row dimensions it is not clear what the dimensions ar...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement | Add Shared Secret Functionality for Single SignOn with WAS portal as it was supported in 10.2 COgnos BI version

Hi Team Please Add Shared Secret Functionality was supported in 10.2 Cognos BI version and is out of support in cognos analytics 11.X versions. We use Shared Secert method to have single sign on with out WAS portal where other tools work in parall...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing a data asset from a project or catalog does not delete it from COS

Whenever a data asset gets removed from either a Watson Studio Project or a Watson Knowledge Catalog the actual file is not removed from the underlying Cloud Object Storage bucket. The result is that there will be a lot of unreferenced files in C...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Install netstat & Tcpdump by default.

Netstat and tcpdump are useful for customers to troubleshoot any network issue. In BiOC, we have it installed by default. Its missing in IAE. Can we include that as part of the cluster itself? Thank you!
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CDs are referenced frequently in the installer

When installing Db2 with the db2_install command, one has to accept the license, which is normal. However, it refers to a file in a "CD" as distribution media. But I ask myself, how many fixpacks as distributed via CD in these days? I know there a...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Server Tracking Tool

Mirat | Suits Your IT Asset Discovery Needs Overview For the last several years, companies are moving towards IT diversified environment which includes cloud, virtual, and mobile devices. The companies decided to make a common place for connecting...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration