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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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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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Hide password arguments which is invoked in instance of dsidocsvr

We need to fix the issue: Passwords are visible on operation system level when the process is running ( command uses the password as parameter ). Thanks For example: dsad1er 2359796 1 0 May 03 - 38:49 dsidocsvr UVHOME=/opt/IBM/InformationServer115...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Need a flag to enable or disable Legacy administration console

currently if you are part of administrator role you have access to legacy administration console portal. However most of the features needed are available under Manage from 11.1.5 onwards so we want to hide this legacy console from our users.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Tasks view adjustment for mobile

The chart appear misshapen and disconnected on Task view when rendered by mobile on vertical position.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Information Server (DataStage) to support SSSD Authentication

We are currently on VAS authentication and planning to move towards SSSD. Upon checking with the support team (TS003331443) we were informed that the product is not supported for SSSD Authentication. Can you please work on a way to get this SSSD a...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

8.2 Workflow End Stages - set Notify Oversight to FALSE by default

Currently when editing a workflow and either changing an existing stage to an end stage, or creating a new end stage, the default setting for Notify Oversight is TRUE. This setting is not expanded by default so it is easy to spot the email is set ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Not under consideration

Combined Filter Application – After Auto Aggregation problem

When creating a combined filter in Cognos Workspace Advanced against a relational package, the selection for Application of the filter defaults to 'After auto aggregation.' regular filters default to 'Before auto aggregation.' This default, which ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration