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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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Multi-members selection in a context selector and show only the total in synchronized charts

In PAW, there is the possibility to synchronize charts with context dimension selectors. Selecting one member will show the data related to this member.Our customer needs to be able to select multiple members and show dynamically the total of the ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

For RSS and HDR nodes partition the apply work by transaction id instead of partnum.

For RSS and HDR nodes currently the apply work is partitioned across threads by partnum, We would like the option to partition the work across apply threads by transaction id. Currently RSS apply threads have to syncronise with the other apply...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

CIS benchmark guide for Cognos Analytics

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our internal security teams expect all product owners to submit CIS (security hardening) guidelines document. I am able to find for DB2 at https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ibm_db2 But I can't find any for...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

License report does not consider removed users

We currently have the following scenario. The standard Manage > License feature is reporting user licenses. Users removed from AD are removed from the output after running a consistency check task. So far so good.. We have users that can no lon...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow for Multi-select option for BE Selector Field Type

This was requested two years ago, but accidentally marked as 'Delivered'. Right now all Object types where users want to Identify (for example) Impacted Locations, admins are forced to create fields 'Impacted Location', 'Secondary Impacted Locatio...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Future consideration

Integration with IBM data replication CDC

We have many customers with CDC and this integration would allow us to upsell databand on those accounts. CDC customers want to make sure the replication process deliver reliable data and want to be alerted whenever the data replication fails. its...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Integration 1 Future consideration

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration