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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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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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Add export to Excel/PDF option when you run drill-through report from the Cognos dashboard which added to user profile

When run drill-through report from Cognos dashboard using Cognos environtment, you have an option to download data to different format. If Cognos dashboard added to user profile dashboard, then this opportunity is missed. We found workaround but i...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

In Dashboards provide Buttons for custom Navigation between tabs and possible other Actions

The User experience in a Multi Tab dashboard can be much improved with on screen buttons rather than tab names. This would provide for a more tailored and user/company specific design (only if required). Too often a prepared design (wireframe or s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

lsfproxyd - Persistent blocking rules

LSFProxyd is a new solution to help scheduler handle queries effectively. This RFE is to enable persistent blocksing rules for heavy query hitters. Same has been discussed with John Welch in a separate discussion.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Supply DBD-Informix Driver for PERL DBI on Linux

I was doing DB development in an Ubuntu/Linux enviornment using PERL. PERL has a database abstraction layer called DBI. Supports preparing queries to both MySQL and Informix with no changes. It does rely on a lower layer DB interface driver, for I...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Make PAW LCM Improvements

LCM PAW seems half baked, suggest a rethink and a sit down with a customer who has the task to migrate between environments. Copies between environments from Shared to Personal, then the user has to Save as every Book so the permissions are not re...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When a DataStage job creates a dataset with a parameterized name, the dataset does not utilize the parameter value at runtime for naming.

When a dataset is created by a DataStage job, and the dataset's name is composed of a parameter, the dataset does not use the parameter's value at runtime to name it.
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted