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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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Optim.Source.getcolumnasbytes funtion to be coded in Optim distributed.

It looks as though the Optim.Source.getcolumnasbytes function is not available for Optim Distributed.
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Add write_time timestamp column in Elastic Search for all LSF Explore Indexes

We believe it is vitally important to know when an entry was created in each index. This will tell us if their is delay in data being collected. It will let us know if we query for a full days data on day Y and see data from day X to know if our q...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

introduce user-defined layout support to ACCOUNTING SAVE and FILE subcommand

Currently user-defined layout is supported in ACCOUNTING with REPORT and TRACE subcommand, but not supported in SAVE and FILE subcommand. The pain point is when the SMF 101 volume is extremely large, say 200 million records per day, the ACCOUNTING...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Citrix Storefront security management

Currently, all icons on Citrix Storefront are completely visible to all users whether they need to see them or not. The idea would be to map users in a way that specific icons are visible only to specific users Prod-CC to all FAP to Admins only De...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility support for removable media / TAPE for WORKDDN, SYSUT1 and SORTOUT

"... The LOAD utility WORKDDN data sets, SYSUT1 and SORTOUT, are multi-use datasets. When a very large table is loaded, it is sometimes necessary to use a tape device for these datasets. The problem is if error or discard processing is invoked, th...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Certify Qlik Connect AIS JDBC Driver to Data Source Connections

Changing from CQM to DQM, DQM requires JDBC connections. Qlik Connect has a JDBC driver that can be used in the Data Source connections. Cognos has not certified this driver. We are implementing security features to our data that requires us to sw...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement on Standard UI creation view when selecting parents : Search and Filter work together

when users use Standard UI to Create a new record, while they select parents on the Creation view, Search and Filter don't work together. users can only use Filter and Folder together.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Visualizations based on Use Roles

11.1 version offers 4 types of visualization engines. For adhoc users its quite confusing to find which chart type to use. At least RAVE 1 & 2 needs to be hidden from users as we can find the functionality with new 11.1 charts.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Identity Insight Explorer and i2 II plug-in to use the full Liberty authentication framework

THIS IS FOR IBM INFOSPHERE IDENTITY INSIGHT***** We have deployed Identity Insight (II) v9, which uses IBM Liberty and supports the full Liberty framework for authentication. Our II Liberty implementation is configured to use an OpenIdConnect (OID...
about 4 years ago in Identity Insight 5 Not under consideration

Increase Width of Scrollbar on a navigation bar for Google Chrome

The scrollbar in the navigation window is too thin in Chrome. As a user, who has many objects in one folder, it is difficult to scroll down. The scrollbar width in Internet Explorer 11 is wider than in Chrome.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration