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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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Increase Password Size for DB2 Supplied Stored Procedures

We have recently converted from passwords to pass phrases. A number of the IBM supplied stored procedures have passwords limited to VARCHAR(24) and our InfoSec dept is requiring at least 25 at preferably up to 32 chars. These stored procedures do ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Replicating clone tables from a source data store and tables which have a clone table defined

As per IDR 11.4, support is not provided either for replicating source clone tables or for replicating tables which have a clone table defined. We need to be able to replicate source tables involved in clone relationships.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Delivered

Removal of ephemeral port use for sysplex/dvipa monitoring from Db2 DDF

In addition to the ports configured in BSDS (INADDR_ANY), Db2 DDF opens an additional ephemeral TCPIP port. It binds to the DVIPA address and requests an ephemeral port be assigned, the number is randomly chosen from a pool by TCPIP.This feature i...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cognos ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

HostFactory should release all EC2 instances when all workloads are completed

Currently HF will not release the EC2 instances when prestarted instances are running even without workloads pending/running. In our case, we are using Terraform to provision the cluster, we need HF to release all the EC2 instances before tearing ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 3 Delivered

Storage Saver - more flexibility needed for image copy template

The member AQTENV in library hlq.SAQTSAMP defines a template to be used for the image copy datasets used when partitions are archived. Although it follows the conventions of the Db2 Utilities TEMPLATE keyword it is less flexible. The reason is tha...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Hide or show only specific options in the menu bar in a Planning Analytics Workbook

We would like to see an option to toggle the menu bar on and off in Planning Analytics Workbook as well as being able to select what options on the menu bar a user can see. Would also like to have this option be specific by book, so the author can...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Need to submit jobs from x86_64 systems to CORAL systems

The IBM supercomputer is only one part of the computing ecosystem in the center. We need the ability to submit jobs back into the cluster from other platforms in the center that are x86_64.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Group Repeating Cells - export to Excel as Page Property

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

A utility to import MX messages into FTM is wanted.

Idea created : 02 FEB 2022. Today it is possible to : Import FIN messages from an input file or data set and create, for each FIN message, a corresponding IBM Financial Transaction Manager for SWIFT Services message in a target queue. (see l...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered