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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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DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Sync TM1 Web fonts with PA Workspace fonts

the fonts available for Websheets on TM1 web do not include all the fonts that you can apply to PA Workspace reports; as such you cannot fully sync the layout TM1 Web reports with Workspace reports. For example, Roboto, the default Workspace font,...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

External user drop-down menu has Users from Head mandator

Workaround was to remove investigate and inherit sub from internal tech users but it still displays for business users. Critical for go live
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Monitor the progress while binary image upload is running

During image upload from a local machine to target volume it takes some time depends on the network setup and local/remote connection. The amount of time it takes for the above is dependent upon how long it takes to transfer from laptop to the IDA...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Calculate classification probabilities for more than two classes

In SPSS Statistics and in open source languages (e.g. R), when you use a classification algorithm to classify more than two groups (e.g. 4 groups), the probabilities are provided for each class (not just the predicted class). This is important bec...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Automatic Cluster Failback feature

We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Require Id and password managed by external security product to log on to Accelerator Console.

As part of the installation of and IDAA we are required to log on to the accelerator console with a password and no userid. This may break security rules in our shop.
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration