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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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Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Clear text passwords are displayed in onstat -g sql/ses commands for Informix user account create/modify user SQL commands

When using USERMAPPING feature to create internal Informix user accounts, it was found the SQL command executed to create an account or modify the password of an existing account is displayed in the output of onstat -g ses and onstat -g sql. Also ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Preserve joins with accessing multiple underlying DVMs in a single SQL statement

I have a SQL statement that joins 3 tables from 1 PEER DVM with a single table from a different PEER DVM. Currently DVM is breaking this statement into 4 separate SQL statements before sending them to Db2. A better approach, when possible would be...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Show LPAR on ISPF panels

We run the same DVM subsystem over multiple LPAR's. When jumping between ISPF sessions, it would be helpful to know which LPAR we are currently on.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0

Exapnd the capabilities of the "Data PLayer" Viz widget to allow for a an ALL or off capability.

A user with a dashboard hat has a step through capability offered through the data player, may have a need to view the dashboard content without the filtering/step effect of the Data Viz widget. Currently this cannot be done (CA 11.1).This may NOT...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New UI - Criticality to allow for 'Not Defined' or 'Not Applicable'

On some objects it is meaningless to define criticality, or at least meaningless when only having fields on that object available for the rule e.g. Action object may not have a RAG, because the RAG is defined on the parent issue e.g. Test Pla...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Not under consideration

Necessary possibility to track the different type of licenses - Cognos Analitics or Planning Analytics

It is good to have the ability to track the different type of licenses via Cognos Portal. Now form Manage->licenses we can see how many licenses are occupied and by hum, but we don’t know how many licenses are used for Cognos Analitics and how ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard task chart should have greater variety of colours

The 8.0.0.3 dashboard chart uses only the 'neutral' colours on the grey/blue spectrum. When we have >4 workflows the colours start repeating themselves, which distracts from the chart. Suggest these charts are configured to use the full set o...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration