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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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IBMID for Cognos Analytics

Would like the ability to log into Cognos Analytics on Cloud directly using the IBM ID. Currently the integration with Planning Analytics (which uses the IBM ID) is only possible by clicking the "Report" button in the PA portal. Cannot currently l...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performant SQL Windowing functionality

We tried to use the syntax for windowing in SQL as an alternative to using subselects. Most other DBMSs perform a lot better with the windowing syntax, but we can only see less performance using it. The reason we want to use it is basically to get...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Struts 2.5.x delivery for symphony 6.1.1

Struts 2.3 is flagged RED by CITI products team and struts 2.3 should not be used any more in CITI. So need higher version struts for Symphony 6.1.1 DE and Symphony 6.1.1 Masters
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

New Redhat ipcmni_extend setting Recommendation in the DB2 Infocentre

Hello, Db2 Luw seems to be a victum of Redhat change https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4968021 The change is effective of Redhat 7.8+, where you need to set ipcmni_extend to allow db2 to request more then 32k of MSGMNI as per https://www.ibm.com...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Being able to change all variables on an IC transaction on Cognos WEB

When clicking on an IC transaction in Cognos web, only the amounts are editable. There's no option to alter the counter dimension and counter company. This is the case in classic Cognos in Excel. Only way to "change" it now is to copy the whole li...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Header navigation not working in accessibility report

We are using classic viewer in an accessible report. We were unable to navigate to different headers (H1, H2...) even though Headers are setup in Tables Cells. Currently we are running JAWS-2019 version in firefox 68.0 ESR. Below keys are also not...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Functionality already exists

Enhancement to dsjob command to show status on multiple instance jobs

The following command does not list multiple instance jobs:dsjob -ljobs -status 0/4 EDW If I have a running or queued multiple instance the above command will not list it as running or queued. This seems like a oversite, because the Status command...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job Step ODBC Data Source with SQL Query

In SPSS Deployment Manager, I have a Job with a Job Step, where the "Mode" of one of the ODBC Data Sources in the underlying SPSS Modeler Stream was recently changed from "Table" to "SQL Query".After refreshing the job step to use the version of t...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Is a defect

In db2look, for mimic stats, option to include commit each X sentences

In order to mimic an environment, the stats are extracted via db2look, and then inserted a regular execution of the generate file. The problem is that the generated updates could be easily more than 15000 sentences and it has two issues: If execut...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Updating free text search instruction

We are using Free Text Search which is great for the customers, however is it possible to update the instructions note provided against the Free Text Search? Every customer is unique and they need not necessarily be a super user to understand the ...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration