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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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WKC granular metrics at asset level

Customer is interested in getting details on metrics like how many people accessed a particular asset. Baiscally their plan is to create a leadership board kind of tool to keep an eye which catalogs or assets are of high value to their end users.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Environment management

Production and non production environment management.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

SPSS need to work with a DQM environment

There is no work around for this issue. We are getting more and more customers asking to use SPSS and we can't offer it to them as a workable solution. This definitely needs to be addressed soon. Check with Michael on history of SPSS and Cognos da...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Rollup Security Updates for infoSphere DataStage

Updating InfoSphere DataStage server to keep WAS ND and WLP components, Java, DB2, etc... updated with respect to security is a nightmare. Updates are released in a confusing wave of updates, service packs, etc...Just as you create a bundled Insta...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Reports>Intercompany report

1. If a company reports two rows with the same counterpart and account but different transaction currencies and the counterpart does not report anything, the report sum up the two amounts with different currencies and then creates a useless amount...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

DataStage: support RFC4180

request RFC4180 support in "Sequential File Stage" or "File Connector" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt Case:TS000994774RTC 96743
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow adding email address /name and direct search

Currently adding email address / names is a very complex and confusing process for end users IT would be nice to type in a name or role and get Cognos to confirm its correct And if not allow to search without selecting folders
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implementation of an option for "Windows Integrated Login" in SDAP-ODBC Driver for Sybase IQ Wire

Still SDAP 8.0 Driver for "Sybase IQ Wire" works fine in SPSS Database Wizard, but needs a Database-Account to be typed in. Our Customer only works in an Windows AD Domain and must use "Windows Integrated Login"-Feature - there is no specific user...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration