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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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timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to Copy or Move reports Search Window

When searching for reports , there is no option to copy or move reports to a different folder. This can be helpful to copy/move reports from a large folders having multiple reports with similar name.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preserve and/or restore SSO configuration during an upgrade

Update : 05/17 Being Tracked here ICPD-1535 : Target v5.1 Bank of America experienced a problem during an upgrade of their platform where they lost the SSO configuration. It took two weeks to diagnose and fix the problem. See support case: TS01527...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Management Of Dynamic Cubes

Simplify management of dynamic cubes so that they are easier to set up, administer, and keep running. In particular, make it so that you can publish them with a routing rule, but NOT have to also define them directly on a dispatcher. I'd suggest a...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refresh table process needs ways to identify possible bootlenecks

During normal Mirroring in a subscription we have the ability to put it into monitoring and the console shows the activity and possible bottlenecks. But during refresh it's like a "black box". We have no way within the product to try to identify t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Email Delivery Pop up Box in Interactive Report

We have certain reports to be delivered to external users in PDF format. These reports were originally built in Cognos 10.2.2 in classic Viewer Mode. On prompt page, we have drill through button to run reports for different parameters and send to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW: Customized login error messages for non authorized users

Problem: When setting up PAW to allow for user imports (ENABLE_USER_IMPORT = false configuration setting) the message a user that tries to log on to Planning Analytics license without being set up as a PAW user is not user friendly and looks very...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration