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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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Hide the Safer Payments login screen from users on a SSO login.

SP login page flashes for a good second and it is confusing.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the need to bind a subprogram locally called by a stored procedure running remotely

Today there are different code pathes if a package is called remotely from a local program OR a local stored procedure. If the package is called by a stored procedure we get SQLCODE805 if no local package exists. Therefore we have the need to bind...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Task Focused UI - Reporting Period Dropdown in Top Bar

In the current Task Focused UI, the user needs 5 clicks to change the reporting period: - User (opens sidebar)- Change reporting period (opens the popup)- Open the dropdown menu- Click on the desired reporting period- Hit save Which then refreshes...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase messaging detail after STOP Db2 to provide shutdown status information.

As Db2 continues to allow more and more capacity in a single subsystem - larger bufferpools, more open datasets, etc - the time to shut down Db2 continues to increase. Operational staff has complained repeatedly that they cannot tell whether Db2 i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

we need an automated process to regenerate jobs to use the latest software

We have about 300 jobs with the tool Every time software is updated we need to regenerate all the jobs to use the new software. If we were allowed to use variables in the tool we would not need to do this. The process to regenerate the jobs is ver...
7 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow for Multi-select option for BE Selector Field Type

This was requested two years ago, but accidentally marked as 'Delivered'. Right now all Object types where users want to Identify (for example) Impacted Locations, admins are forced to create fields 'Impacted Location', 'Secondary Impacted Locatio...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Future consideration

Add more characters in the custom attribute of the description

Today, there is a limitation of 255 characters when creating a custom attribute in the description field
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 9 Future consideration