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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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OpenPages - Automatic Profile Switching based on ObjectType

Hi, many of our users have different profiles for our different modules. When they are accessing a task directly (via email link) they often receive an error message that their current profile does not allow access to this object type. Especially ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Custom graphs in cyclops/webconsole

As NzPortal no longer supports the new platforms we are forces to switch to the cyclops web console which does not support adding custom graphs which we could do in NzPortal. Adding this functionality shouldn't be a lot of work and would provide f...
over 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Include Documents in Archiving

Content archiving is currently only supporting report output versions. Uploaded documents from Cognos for Microsoft Office (ClassID 180) are not picked of the archiving background task and cannot be archived to an external repository like fileshar...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Provide an easier method to bulk delete actions from a maintenance window

In the course of normal testing/usage of the autonomics functionality of the Db2 Automation Tool or the new Db2 Automation Expert, there are times when too many actions have been added to a maintenance window, and the user needs/wants to prune man...
9 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow a Maintenance Window execution to be suspended/cancelled

There are situations that occasionally arise where the execution of a maintenance window needs to be suspended/cancelled. Examples of this are 1) when performing testing or debugging of a maintenance window, 2) when the execution of a maintenance ...
9 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Overview Visualizations

Carhartt Business users would like to have visualisations of the Overview tab incorporated to easy track & view the status of their tasks. Included in this, a status visualisation showing only the tasks that they are assigned to. For example, ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add "EXCEPTION" parameter to CHECK INDEX to discontinue processing after N disrepancies

Sometimes when you run CHECK INDEX you encounter a huge number of discrepancies so much so that the utility keeps running and running and producing an excessive amount of output -messages regarding the details of the discrepancies. In some cases y...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration