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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
over 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Classification Labelling

Our company has an IT security requirement that all data has a classification whether it is electronic or printed on paper. There are four different classifications of data and the user should be allowed to choose one. The label would need to be i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target Currently each table in the subscription maps and publishes to its respective target topic. This is not a short come of the tool, this is mainly due to the way application files are defined ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

GPU report works with exclusive jobs

To use the GPU accounting, our users have to submit exclusive GPU jobs. We would like our users to submit both exclusive and non-exclusive jobs. Since GPU accounting is important to us, we have to configure our queues to make all submitted GPU job...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

HOST Var and SQL Text RFE 105549

HOST Variable and SQL Text features cannot be used as the granularity is ON/OFF where what we need is granularity by application on a DB2 subsystem. Sensitive data is not always masked so teams cannot view the data, this includes DBAs. Since bot...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional object variables for questionnaire template are needed

We are limited to the below 12 field variables for objects related to the questionnaire template and would like to have the option to use additional variables. perhaps be able to use any of the fields on the 4 associated objects. •The identifier, ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration