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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Single Authentication & Authorization model

Customers: Lockheed Martin, federal clients, Cognos clients IAM - https://bigblue.aha.io/features/ICPD-1031 We will use this wpic to track only the SSO work. SSO should extend across services in the platform: Contained within common connectivit...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Planned for future release

Concurrent User Licensing

Bring back the option for concurrent user licensing
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

2 Factor Authentication for Controller

IBM should implement the ability to use 2 factor authentication users logging into Controller server, client and FAP. This is to better secure Controller data. Also, TM1 (Planning Analytics)currently can not be secured with 2 factor authentication...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Performance indicator , same SQL should have same SQL ID in SQLTRACE

Customer care for two dimensions, session and SQL. Show those sessions and SQL that have most resources.The same SQL has different SQL ID if the same SQL execute in different session currently.so It's difficult to summary or group by the resource ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-tenant tuning,can stop and start the single tenant database

Isolate the resource(CPU,memory,chunk,lock) for the Multi-tenant database within the same instance, and can stop and start the single tenant database, can do the failover with Multi-tenant database, switch from one machine to another.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

snap to grid feature to assist with aligning images on PAw workborks.

when creating a PAw workbook with multiple graphs or reports it is sometimes hard to get them to line up next to each other properly.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI When a conditional palette is created, their is a option to show conditional palette values as legend. The problem is that the legend appears two times, in the default legend and the conditi...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

automatically applied DB2 fixpack at deployment time

that there is currently not a way to automatically have a DB2 fixpack applied at deployment time (other than to write a script package to start a DB2 fixpack install and have that script package executed at deploy time).
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Allow more then 8bytes for DATABASE NAME.(RIMS)

Database names are currently limited to 8 characters (bytes) in size. This is painful when dealing with hundreds/thousands of databases.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index creation for partitions of a partitioned-table(RIMS)

[JPMC EDW] Currently, a create-index statement with the PARTITIONED clause will process each partition sequentially. Ideally DB2 would perform this with some degree of parallelism. Currently, this can be accomplished by detaching the individual pa...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration