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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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in IPM 12, only specific ports should be requested to open at client firewall instead of complete range from 1025 - 65536 port range open for network traffic

The IBM WebSphere application team analysis revealed that some of the ports or TCP/UCP connections are being blocked, resulting in a page loading issue for the Product Master application. To resolve this issue, opening a specific list of ports bet...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Customizing the display of custom card attributes for business terms and categories.

In IBM IGC, you can customize the display of custom attributes and their order. You can add custom attributes, but the rules for displaying them do not work. I have seen the Information asset display menu, but I cannot find a setting to display ...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using?

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using in Cognos Connection? this fuctionality use to exist in v.10 , where we can see datasource by clicking on more properties of package. Case : TS001410982 was created for same and was suggested to su...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support auto-assign Chinese term

Most of Chinese biggest customer is looking for the capability of auto-assign Chinese term. for example:ICBC, PAB, BOC. So their Business Analysis or Data Scientist can understand their data with business term. This is most key step they are looki...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Making subscriptions persistent for iSeries

Connections are being closed between the source and target and ending replication. We have to manually restart InfoSphere
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

remove the dependency on the self-signed certificates in FTM V4

Self signed certificates are not allowed per bank standard security restictions.
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review