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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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DB2 z/OS security; hide install SYSADM and SYSOPR from DSNZPARM; use RACF instead

In DB2 z/OS, no group and/or userids are more powerful than the Install SYSADM and to no small degree the Install SYSOPR. Yet, these userids and/or groups are easily found by anyone having access to a db2 subsystem and knowing the existance of DSN...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Classic IIDR server's STOP,ALL command process should enable the timeout function

In a customer's production environment STOP,ALL command was entered to a IMS target server but the termination process hung. After 80 minutes passed STOP,ALL,IMMEDIATE was entered and the server successfully terminated. (The incident is reported b...
about 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Collapsible hierarchy prompt into new Dashboard

Tree prompt is a great way to explore and filter hierarchies, but the current hierarchy prompt does not function well with large hierarchies, because you can not collapse hierarchy branches. Please provide collapsible hierarchy prompt
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Subtotal in PAW book.

We would like to have a Custom Subtotal feature in Planning Analytics Workspace book so that we can calculate on the fly for the selected dimension elements or Measures.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

PAW - Homepage Notifications/Logo Customization

Allow customization of the welcome page to include notifications to users about system uptime/downtime/batch process notifications, etc. Currently, we have several models which are connected to a single PAW production server, and we cannot provide...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

When Associating a Business Entity be able to select it from Hierarchy

When in an object view a Business Entity must be associated, it would be very useful to be able to select it from the Business Entity Hierarchy. Meaning, to have the same filter that is available on Business Entity Grid View.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability save filtered interactive report to xls or pdf

We embed cognos report within our portal page (.NET) and so the cognos toolbars are hidden and only way to export the report output is to use a drillthrough link to export report to appropriate output format. The drillthrough report unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Print Reports in Planning Analytics for Excel

Perspectives Print Reports functionality is no longer available with PAX.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration