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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 Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Write type 99 records to a different log stream

The Type 99 records are not needed for IMS database integrity andtheir processing consumes a large amount of I/O bandwidth on thecritical OLDS log stream. It would be useful to split this I/O to a differentlog stream (along with copies of the nece...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in Cognos

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in CognosThe map stays at worldview TS001308541
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC Record type 99 generation to be controlled externally

To generate IMS records for CDC, each DBD must be augmented by adding an EXIT parameter to each segment. This would require a DBDGEN an OLC. We need a command (type1/2) to be able disable and enable type 99 record creation against a database that ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Change Controlled AI Asset Catalog

A Financial Services company NewBank Inc. is aggressively infusing AI into many of their business processes. NewBank has a strong in house expertise as well has a strong eco system of innovative startups. NewBank is building an eco system of AI en...
over 5 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Conductor exploiting ActiveDirectory security (SPNEGO)

Improve authentication and authorization, but in one big step. Active Directory enables integrated NTLM , LDAP and Kerberos. SPNEGO will use TGT if present, or request ID/PWD to LDAP. When set up right, the server then uses delegated security, and...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration

Determine last modification of report specification (xml) by user

Currently it is possible to determine when the report was initially created (Created Date) and when the report or its settings as a whole were changed. The "Modified Date" changes as well when a report output version is being stored or by job exec...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make it possible to search Japanese terms in Business Glossary

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points When Business Glossary terms are in Japanese, it is not searchable in terms search field. -state your current workaround(s), Search by tags in English. -state any proposed ...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Requirement Request

Add the active and finish index interactive job data collection.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide "levels" rollup in PAX

When you expand a dimension in PAX there are the following items a user can expand: Subsets, Private Subsets, Levels, and Members. When compared to CAFE, showing Levels is new functionality in Planning Analytics. Having levels displayed does not m...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration