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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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The ability for the user to set the login of persistent cookies with an expiration date instead of session cookies

The topic is the ability for the user to set the login of persistent cookies with an expiration date instead of session cookies. Our business justifies such a need, among other things, for security reasons.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow fixed MAXLOCKS value even if LOCKLIST is AUTOMATIC

When LOCKLIST is set to AUTOMATIC, the MAXLOCKS setting cannot be set. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/locklist-and-maxlocks-database-configuration-parameters-and-lock-escalations In general this follows the concept of LOCKLIST AUTOMATIC, but th...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Optimize querying on model using bridge table

Use of 'SELECT DISTINCT' on the bridge table part of a model is unusable in real life. When you have millions of records, query have low performance
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Drill Through Reports by passing Source Table Name and Filters as the Parameter Value Prompts

Ability to generate Dynamic Drill Through Reports by passing Source Table Name as the Parameter Value Prompts from a Summary Report.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

we need an automated process to regenerate jobs to use the latest software

We have about 300 jobs with the tool Every time software is updated we need to regenerate all the jobs to use the new software. If we were allowed to use variables in the tool we would not need to do this. The process to regenerate the jobs is ver...
6 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SPSS Statistics Connector to Intersystems IRIS Database

Create a native connector for Intersystems IRIS database in IBM SPSS and other relevant products, enabling seamless data integration and analysis for customers who use IRIS as their primary database. This connector would simplify data access, redu...
6 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Dashboard tooltips for duplicate items

Current functionality means that if a data item is on a visualisation as both a field and a tooltip it won't show in the tooltip. For example, if the Revenue data item is used for bar length and again in the visualisation tooltip, then the tooltip...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

GitLab Integration (Scripts/Stream Version/Branch Management )

Users need to manage updating/reverting version/branches of scripts/data in CP4D projects.With limited feature in CP4DaaS, users cannot manage versions of their work products in CP4D projects. GitLab integration is required.(GitLab is preferable, ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration