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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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View systems messages - keep history of messages and alerts with details

System messages popup top right of screen for a number of seconds and then disappear. We should be able to review all of the messages\alerts raised and drill into the details i.e. you run a TI process from an action button. While away from your co...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs. Datastage only is allowed sftp and ftp protocols for long time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize the Annoucements home page header

We customize a home page to announce activities that occur in Cognos to the team. The “Announcements” home page is sourced from report under “Team content". The report output format is default “HTML”. The “Announcements” home page is created by us...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - add search capability to finding a data source

As is, in CA Dashboarding, users need to navigate through folder structure to find a data source add search to finding a data source. Adding search will allow user to find the source they want much quicker.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Output Format data in Audit Package

The report performance is being calculated using Audit package. The performance report will be published to the higher level of management. The report performance should be captured only for the HTML report execution. In the Audit package, there i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HQ: Add a 'Hot tables" sub-menu in the Performance tab, same for LOCKS

It would be a good thing to have, in HQ's performance sub-menu, a 'Hot tables' (and indexes) section which can be based on the output of onstat -g ppf. The idea is to have a view on the tables that are more active, and eventually click on one tab...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Control of default Folder order in Workspace

Want certain folders to be the first in the list by default. Right now the newest folders always show up at the top of the page.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

CPLEX: Make adding mulitple objectives consistent with adding one objective

In the Java API for CPLEX (presumably similar in other APIs), it is possible to create an objective and add it to a model in one function call, using overloads of IloCplexModeler.addMinimize() and .addMaximize() that take an IloNumExpr argument. D...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration