IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    Optim Separate File LOB Extract

    Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
    over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance Watson Assistant Entity Recognition

    As a recommendation for a future upgrade, it would help if IBM could enhance the ability of Watson Assistant to recognize Entities using machine learning (sort of like Intents are recognized) such that an Entity of "arm pain" with synonyms like "s...
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

    Integration with Banking apps (& industry specific apps)

    This feature would be useful for a lot of organisations that deal with making payments to clients. For example, accountants working with solicitors use LEAP (case management software) to track claim payouts, and payouts are done through a banking ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

    Enable Daily, weekly, Monthly schedule job option when uploading file in SFTP server for Cognos Controller on Cloud.

    Kindly help us to recommend a best method to upload a file from third party to into the Cognos Controller. As requirement business wanted to know how we can upload a file from third party to Cognos Controller of ABI application. We want the proces...
    over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

    It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

    We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    To allow re adding the member in the grouping through addPartyGroupingAssociation service.

    addPartyGroupingAssociation service does not allow to add the party back to the grouping if the party was earlier part of the grouping and the grouping association has been end dated
    over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

    Need a way to tell which roles and/or groups an individual user is in.

    When a new user joins the organization, typically we'll get a request that says "give the new user the same rights as user x". In the past, when we had Cognos on prem, I had SQL statements I could run against the content store that would allow me ...
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Add additional options to the Share functionality

    We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
    over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

    Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

    In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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