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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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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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Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Metrics Filter

Hi - While using DMC we noticed that its very much resource intensive since it monitor a lot of different metrics in database. There should be an option where we can use it for different monitoring levels like basic, avg or in-depth depends upon d...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

enable 'single sign on' website login

useful to avoid end users retyping their password to log on RTM website
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

add indexes in MWH for BICFI from/to in BAH of InterAct messages' payload.

The SWIFT IA services esmig.t2 and ebacl.e1s1 will introduce the "V-Shape" model with the HVPS migration to ISO20022 in Nov 2022, whereas the ESMIG and E1S1 Operators will always be the Requestor or Responder in the IA-header but not the "correspo...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Restrict Access to Directory Search of Cognos Namespace

User chooses to run report in the background and selects email delivery option. The report author can then email a report with sensitive data to an entire Cognos namespace group like Consumers. Current work around forces us to shut off Report Sche...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration