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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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CAPTCHA mechanism

A captcha mechanism should be implemented in all forms.It is recommended the CAPTCHAs to be validated on the server side. It is necessary to ensure that the CAPTCHA is valid for a single use and is invalidated after its use.Also, the following con...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show report location/path in the job

It is currently impossible to see the location of the report. So it is difficult to see if you’ve the right report in the job. If you’re not sure, the only way to make it sure is to remove the report in the job and add it again. You need to config...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Infosphere Governance catalog timeout issue

When a user inactive in IGC application, the screen doesnt go logout window, instead it reamins on the screen, but when user clicks on any icon or performs activity on the IGC app, the user gets an error. IBM recommended to perform a refresh of th...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Infosphere information server redirect url after SSO

when trying embed the IGC lineage url for a asset as an iframe in another app. When the user clicks on the link it redirects to IGC home page instead of the lineage page in igc. Below case was opened as part of troubleshooting the issue with IBM. ...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

PAfE: UNDEF rule function display as N/A

Using UNDEF rule function returns different results in PAW and PAFE. In PAW it displays #N/A, while in PAFE it’s blank cell. Default server formatting applied. In general PAW and PAfE as standard user interfaces should both work in a consistent ma...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

License auditing process/utility for PA Workspace & PA for Excel.

At this time, it is not possible to clearly track which user accesses the TM1 data models from PA Workspace(local release 29) & PA for Excel. Due to unavailability of any defined method/procedure, it's unmanageable to audit the count of users(...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Job Scheduling in Cognos on Demand

When using Cognos on premises a job can be created to execute multiple reports. Each report can be configured to meet output requirements for format and distribution. Reports can be run concurrently or in sequence. A single job entry contains the ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Make dashboard "Smart title" smarter

Currently when creating a dashboard, user adds fields to a widget and the smart title is automatically generated. However, these "smart" titles are created using the language locale of the user who created the widget. When a user with another loca...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration