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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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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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

Translation of Lynx Acknowledgement notification

the idea is to include Lynx related positive and negative acknowledgement for Canadian high value payment traffic. Currently MT012 and MT019 are delivered from LVTS, where in the future, Lynx will deliver XSYS001 and XSYS002, respectively. If the ...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create separate publishers per chache type

Today's publisher design bundles all the subscribers in single publisher. I think more flexibility in either creating new publisher for a subscriber or bundling it in existing publisher would make it more easy from maintenance and deployment persp...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Future consideration

MDM 360 Match Filters

I would like the subscribers to be able filter the Party records being cached by Line of Business or Region. Allowing row filtering will help us LOB or region specific caches that will help channels to maintain local copy of the data that they nee...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Functionality already exists

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

Ability to Aggregate cases within a Single Case Class or an identified list of Case Classes

We only have one Mandator, so Case Aggregation across the entire mandator is not feasible. We have many teams that work different streams and require to aggregate the cases within a case class or an identified list of case classes so that alerts f...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration