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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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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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LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP3

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 support pack 3 needed. As the documentation for Manta currently states that the latest version of BO supported is 4.3 SP 1 & 2. Lockheed requires SP 3 to be supported in order to sustain compatib...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Improvement on TMI Scanners

This is the feedback from SLF regarding TMI scanners -> Create a DB2 instance template for Watsonx Code Assistant. When the user is provisioning the DB2 instance, they can select the template instead of creating a vanilla Db2 instance. This tem...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Provide an automated CodeEngine Frontend or something similar to interact with our Watsonx.AI Apps

This is a common headache shared by many IBMers. Our AI/ML models need a frontend, this frontend use to be a CodeEngine solution. The problem we have is that we are not that familiar with CodeEngine, so its not rare to spend a lot of time creating...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Too much wasted space between Name and location in the Portal

Notice you cannot change the column width. The location is cut off. I could hover over it but I should not have to do that. Too much wasted space between Name and location.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted