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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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Add SASL Support for Kafka Interface

Currently Kafka Supports only SSL, We have a requirement for Kafka interface to support SASL for comply with banking security requirement.
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow central configuration of platform settings (especially for SSL CA setup for Git)

Many platform parameters need to be configured using config parameters In order to configure the CA for a self-hosted Git server in R Studio, the CAs needs to be added through the Git integration token in the UI. Even though this works, it is coun...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0

improved estimation for potential use of Huffman Compression

Requirement for more accurate estimates of DASD space savings when using Huffman Compression. Problem is that estimates produced by DSN1COMP can be significantly inaccurate i.e., as much as +/- 30%. The solution required is a new option on the REO...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable chores in the TM1 database to be scheduled to local timezone on Cloud

The SaaS server is set to a timezone of UTC (i.e. it doesn't change between GMT and BST), and this timezone can't currently be changed. TM1 chores can be set to run at either UTC or local server time, but as the server is set to UTC, that means b...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Increased functionality of the "Close to" and "Not Close to" operators

When using the "close to" operators in a condition, would like the ability to specify whether or not the tolerance is only positive or only negative, in addition to the current setting which always works in both a positive and negative direction.
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen.

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen. The reason is that the current "Name" menu field is so narrow that some names are obscured, making it difficult to use. I would like to widen it.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration