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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Password expiration popup in PAfE and PASS

In PA there is a PasswordExpirationDays Parameter. This Parameter triggers a popup 5 days before the password expires in Architect and Perspectives. If the user is using PAfE and PASS there is no popup message/ reminder. Can we get the same/ simil...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses tab: Being able to track Licenses without the users logging in

Hi As per the IBM Support, the Licenses tab can only count the users that Logged in at least once but not the users that have been assigned roles but have yet to Login
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

Add REORG LONGLOBDATA for columnar tables

Currently we can create columnar tables with CLOB/LOB columns in it. What we can't do is reclaim the allocated diskspace of the CLOB/LOB columns (LOB_OBJECT_P_SIZE) in columnar tables To get an idea about how many diskspace is allocated: db2 "...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Avoid impact from query sort usage on more important online transactions workload

Nowadays usage of Sortworks by a single thread is limited by MAXTEMPS or the size of the overall available sortworks if MAXTEMPS is zero. Most time MAXTEMPS works well to protect our regular business against single queries with a lot of sort amoun...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to sort 'my parameters'

Add custom sort option for global parameters under the 'My parameters' section in the application bar. We want to expose specific parameters to users using this functionality but it is not possible to control the order of this parameters (how they...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data UI: Levels and Members Ugly, Confusing and Redundant

Summary:Need way to control the Dimension UI under cube Data MenuDetails:On the left Data Menu. One see the Dimensions listed under the Views for each cube If you expand the dimension you see the small pyramid with Sets, Levels and Members options...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration