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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hiding 'Send report to mobile device' option under Report delivery method in Cognos 11 Cloud

Hi Team, On Cognos 11 cloud portal for any report when we choose Report 'Run as' > 'Run in background' > 'Advanced' > 'Delivery', we can see 'Send report to mobile device' option. we want to hide this option for group of users (based o...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Install InfoSphere Data Replication Agent on Azure SQL Database

User is migrating his database to Azure and they need to replicate data between MS-SQL Server (source) and Azure SQL Database (target).
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Make XML tablespaces more portable

Currently, there are 3 different internal structures that Db2 uses for the implicitly created table inside an XML tablespace: 3 columns, 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINARY(8), and 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINAR...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Federation Issue on DB2 ORACLE COMPATIBLE databases when remote is NOT ORACLE COMPATIBLE

When a DB2 Oracle compatible (ORA) is federated against another DB2 DB that is NOT-ORAcle compatible, any select involving char columns results in not pushing down the request to the remote server and transmit the huge amount of records across the...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022

As MS SQL Server 2022 is expected to be released in mid 2022, when will IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022 ?
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Search skill message prompt to support multiple line or HTML tags in web chat widget

For search skill message prompt that consist of multiple line or HTML tags, web chat widget will treat it as normal text without formatting it accordingly. The web chat widget just ignore the multi line or HTML message prompt and display a single ...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Extension Node - Syntax Highlighting

Initial Situation: In same cases we have the need in ibm spss modeler streams to use R / python to add very special functionality. Issue: The extension node, e.g. (extension model) has no syntax highlighting Due to the lack of usability, most of...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration