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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,

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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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FastMap parallelism in uploading data must be managed internally by the product with no actions by the user

Actually if the user wants to upload data files in parallel he has to start multiple uploads instances. The request is that the product takes one data file prepared by the user, and manages the parallelism internally, starting more threads so gett...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Full Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Right now we are using Cognos Analytics on a SLES 12 SP5 OS. SLES 12 has EOS in 2024 and we need to migrate to SLES 15 (SP4 or newer). Right now the "Cognos Analytics Server" and the "Cognos Software Development Kit" are not supported on SLES 1...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Revert font colours in the Rules and Process Editor

The process editor has recently had an update to the design where the font colours have now changed. The new font colours are hard to distinguish between. For example, previously element names used to be blue and function colours were pink. Now fu...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Common Pattern Nodes

Add the possibility to jump to common pattern nodes/node groups (e. g. "Please enter your customer number/adress/phone number") from anywhere in the dialog flow and dynamically jump back, based on where you came from. This could speed up dialog de...
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

DBSPACETEMP environment variable needs to accommodate multiple page sizes concurrently

When using DBSPACETEMP, the listing in onconfig is limited to one pagesize. The environment variable for DBSPACETEMP also allows for one page size. The engine needs to be able to pick the correct pagesize for temp space usage, and the current arch...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Command DISPLAY PROFILE, enhance msg DSNT753I with another timestamp

Summary:Add the timestamp of when the START PROFILE command started to message DSNT753I. ------------ Currently, the output of a DISPLAY PROFILE command, when the profile STATUS is ON, shows a message DSNT753I similar to the following: DSNT753I +D...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration

Add the ability to customize(or at least expand) the fields viewed in Cognos Administration for Scheduled reports, Past Activities, Current Activities
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration