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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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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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Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to review data on remote instances without having to move API to remote instance.

Today, when researching a data discrepancy between two instances in Advance Defense the API or BDI export process must be manually moved. When this occurs other access or processes can be negatively impacted. In order to comply with client SLAs, t...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Job Details view window limitations

There are actually two problems regarding this Job Details view: 1. There is no easy navigation from a given design view of a flow or pipeline to the corresponding Job Details window 2. There is no way back from this Job Details window back into t...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

When a session is suspended while tasks are running on reclaimed hosts, the suspendGracePeriod should take precedence over EGO consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

Define a very large reclaimGracePeriod (say 10 hours) for a consumer. If a compute host is reclaimed while the workload is running, then the tasks will remain running until the reclaimGracePeriod expires. However, if the session is then suspended,...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Implement a relying-party backchannel logout URL to allow for Single Signout.

When integrating Cognos elements into a portal, secured against OIDC namespace, it would be helpful if we could employ token-based single-signout from our OIDC provider, rather than having to force the users to log-out manually from Cognos Analyti...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Submitted

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages. Currently the max it can go is 500 and if there are more models to be downloaded, it cannot be done with single export. We request you to please ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Period of inaction while building a report. Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout

Period of inaction while building a report.Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout Part 2If you have a period of inaction. Cognos becomes unresponsive, but does not direct you back to login screen to re-login....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Allow administrators to set the default Homepage tab per Profile

We are using v7.2.0.4 and currently there is no way to set which Homepage tab is the default landing page when users log in. The system always defaults to the Classic Homepage. I can configure the order of the tabs but, regardless of the order, th...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration