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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enhance Instance Configuration encryption setup

Delivers IDR with a predefined encryption profile for Non Encrypted. This increases intuitivity on the dmconfigurets interface. Customers get confused when trying to configure their first Instance, calling for support, increasing their time to set...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Remove option for users to sent themselves a blank email

In Cognos 10, when emailing report output the menu required either attaching the report output or sending a link to the report. In Cognos Analytics when a user is attempting to email themselves the report output, if they want to attach the report ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

Add BlackBerry wrapper to Cognos Mobile app.

Our company utilizes the BlackBerry wrapper on mobile apps to give them access to our internal network. We do not use VPN on mobile devices. We would like IBM to wrap the Cognos Mobile App with the BlackBerry wrapper.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Set Fit Page to default On

In Dashboard, users can set the Fit Page property to On so that the dashboard does not scroll. It would be convenient if this property could be defaulted to On. Users are calling in because CA Dashboards are not fitting to the screen anymore. It i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Start Excel exclusively with Perspectives or PAx

You told me that it is not possible to have 2 shortcuts on the same computer with these characteristics: 1) starting Excel with Perspectives and without PAx 2) starting Excel with PAx and without Perspectives Only user interventions in Excel/optio...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Federated functionality across Hybrid Clouds for all Watson Knowledge Catalog capabilities (data governance, data quality, self-serve, data lineage, ...)

General Motors has a scenario which I believe is common and representative to many customers. They have majority of their data currently on prem and they have installed and deployed WKC on-prem. However, they are aggressively moving to the cloud (...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CHECK DATA utility: 1) to avoid SCANTAB and SORT when “SINGLE PARTITION IS SPECIFIED”; 2) to add PART range and parallelism option.

Currently Db2 does not provide either a parallelism option or PART range option for running CHECK DATA utility. Instead, as of Db2 V12, only ‘PART integer’ option is provided that repeating TABLESPACE database-name.table-space-name PART integer st...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow preemption of shared gpu jobs (j_exclusive=no) by higher priority job queues.

We need the LSF support for preemption of shared gpu jobs. Currently GPU preemption is supported only for jobs in mode j_exclusive=yes This is a very big problem as we have a significant waste of gpu memory resource. because if a lower priority jo...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Make product manuals available in ePub format.

Can you please make more product manuals (specifically DB2 for z/OS) available in the ePub format? The PDF format does not work well with tablets and readers. If you zoom to get a legible font size, then you must scroll left, right, left, right on...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration