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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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Method to disable 'Select Server' prompt (using classic client)

Since Controller 11.0.1 FP2 IF2, the classic client now gives an extra 'Select Server' prompt/choice as soon as a user launches the client. The 'select server' selection screen appears *before* the 'Select Database' section (where the user chooses...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Needs more information

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Lock and Unlock element in PAW

We need functionality of locking and unlocking element in PAW, same like Architect. In Architect when we lock an element (by right click element > security > lock/unlock), it will not overwrite existing READ/WRITE access to groups. But when ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Oracle stored procedure support with DRDA-passthrough

We need to have support for Oracle Stored procedure and sequence using DRDA-passthrough. At the moment we have programs running on z/Os that are using Oracle client that is out of support and will no longer be working with the latest Oracle releas...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Print Functionality from Browser in CA 11.0.8

Currently we have reports in 10.2.2 which are HTML specific and we use browser's print functionality to print After Migrating to CA, this functionality is lost. so we would request to add back this functionality into CA in future release.When tryi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Applications: Configure default action of the Navigation Pane (Collapsed or Expanded)

Hi team, I'd like to attach single PAW asset (book - landing page) with the navigation (action) buttons ) to the Application tile and therefore I'd like the side Application Navigation Pane to be collapsed (or hidden) by default. This approach wil...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Set a custom palette in Cognos 11.1.1 as default for the whole dashboarding environment

Dear IBM, We would like to have the posibility to set a custom Palette which is saved under "Global" as default for the whole dashboarding environment.This is to maintain our corporate identity. Regards, Matthijs, ING Netherlands
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Resolve issues relating to quantum entangled action buttons in PAfE

Currently if I have an Excel sheet with action buttons on and I duplicate the sheet into the same workbook then to all visible cues we end up with two action buttons (AB). I can see two action buttons, one on each sheet and I can see them listed s...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Greater distinction between the Input / "All Leaf" level in the PAfE cube viewer / PAW exploration.

Discounting ruled cells, the only distinction between an "All Leaf" cell and a consolidation is that the cell is normal or bold text formatted.This distinction is too subtle. You can only tell the difference between a bold and normal formatted tex...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release