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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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Disable "i" interactive animation in PA for Excel Options

One of our customers have experienced errors while hovering over these "i" icons and has negatively impacted user experience. From what I understand, these animations are hosted on IBM Knowledge Center and are relatively heavy which requires ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Securing Table Data from DBA Access

We have an application table that stores a quarterly key to encrypt/decrypt data in other tables, and need to protect these keys from DBA access (roque DBA potential). Using PERMISSION and TRUSTED CONTEXT helps some, but data can still be exposed ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

No popups, in the Cognos mobile app on iPad, in drill-throughs with a single definition

Currently in the version of Cognos Analytic Mobile (Version 11.0.0.7 Build 11.0.0.8.8) during a drill-through with a single definition a popup is displayed to then select the only definition of drill and make it. This choice can, however, be misle...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Planning Analytics - Upload Group Membership

Within PAW, there is the ability to upload users via a CSV file and upload groups via a CSV file. However, assigning users to PAW groups is a manual exercise. Requesting the ability to upload group membership (i.e. mapping of which users belong to...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Datastage Lock job

Hello We think that it will be a great addition to have the way to lock a job whitout being in the designer. Regards
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Duplicate detect Image Quality

In Duplicate detect the image Quality is degrading since two images are to be displayed. The issue is that while the images in the inbound X9 is good the are degrading in duplicate detect causing incorrect decision by Business Operations. The requ...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.

New fields would be added to the instrumentation facility for IFCID 148 and IFCID 3.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Lift 32K limit on SQL queries/results

SQL statements that exceed 32K in their collective data types currently crash. For example, if you select 10 LVARCHAR columns of 5000 each, totaling 50000 you get an error, crashing the application. This limit is way too low and it is causing our ...
over 4 years ago in Informix 1 Functionality already exists

Infosphere Change Data Capture needs to support Oracle Advanced Security (OAS)

We are upgrading to Oracle 12c and our new security requirements are to use OAS. I was not able to complete the CDC instance creation due to OAS. Once OAS was removed, I was able to complete creating the instance.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists