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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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Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dropping Primary Keys

Allow the following syntax for dropping a primary key : alter table table-name drop primary key;
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Built in cube reporting engine so there is no need for TM1

Controller users are required to use external products for cube reporting
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

external loader with mutiple schemas but same table names across the schemas

some users modeler use only the table names without a specifying the name of the schema when writing to a database. There are situations were there are multiple schemas with the table name. This situation would has been known to cause serious prob...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to suppress messages for Action Buttons that run a TI

Current versions of PAW pop up a running/complete/failed message when running a TI. This can be a nuisance for use cases where the TI may need to be used frequently. I would like to have the option to suppress these messages, similar to the messag...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration