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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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Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize in PAW the “Accept Invitation - IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise XXXX Account” emails

System : Planning Analytics WorkspaceActor : Administrators We would like to be able to customize the email that is sent when users are invited to Planning Analytics Workspace by administrators. Currently the email is as below: Subject : Accept In...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide Hieararchy name from inner label of pie chart

Unable to hide hierarchy name from inside label - pie chart. Issue with Hierarchy names being hidden fixed in PAW 93 but this particular label doesn't appear to be part of properties to be able to hide.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

datatype uuid in Datastage Greenplum Connector

The database of my source table is Greenplum. The datatype of a field is UUID but this doesn't exists in Datastage. When I import the table definitions of this table then then the SQL type is -11.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Reduced spacing between the values in a prompt

Currently there is a lot of spacing between prompt values when using any report style of version 11 (besides 11.x). This does not provide a good overview of the values in the prompt, the users have to scroll a lot to find the value that they want ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report widget for Panel in new UI

Hi Team, We have a number of teams using the same profile like Audit, ORM etc and we will like each team to have their separate panels on the home page. We are able to achieve the charts and count for the panels. However, there is no option to a...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Make a package default for all reports in cognos 11.09

Set a package to be default package for all the new reports for Cognos 11.09.Currently there is no option that can set a particular package to be default package for all the new reports in Cognos 11.In Cognos 11 Users always have to add package ma...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to offload VSAM files in DSNTIAUL format

We run query monitor across 4 plexes and 9 LPARS and many DB2 systems. We do 'not' load the QM performance data to each system, rather we offload the data from each LPAR, then consolidate the load of the data to one of our non-prod performance war...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration