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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.

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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New system user creation, password reset and configuration change activities

Our pain point is that we need to perform re-deployment activity for container{pod} with downtime approx 15-20 min for specific use cases. These are as follows: 1. Users. Creation of new system user and resetting of existing user's password. 2. ...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Business Partners are looking for Cognos Adhoc reports open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool by default

As a part of Query Studio sunset in Cognos 11.2.2 Edge browser, Business partners are migrated their QS reports to RS reports .Business Partners are looking for Migrated Cognos Adhoc reports (RS) should open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Compare data between Db2z and IDAA against any differences

Customer would like to compare the data on table level between Db2z and IDAA. Their inspiration is coming from QRep. There is a command called asntdiff and it compares data between source and target. They use regularly for Qrep and looking for sim...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

connect directly to IBM Data Virtualization Manager on z/OS? through cognos

we are looking to DVM to Cognos - Connectivity it will redundant using multiple tools to connect/access data from IBM Data Virtualization Manager on z/OS? and it will give option to directly connecting to Mainframe databases.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration