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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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zIIP enables FPECMAIN

Processing huge volume of DB2 Accounting records require significant amount of GCP CPU, DB2PM has become a less attractive product in terms of processing costs. To maintain the product's attractiveness, portion of processing should be made zIIP el...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Audit Log for Forms

In the "system audit log" there is no possibility to track changes in the forms (not the data, but the structure) for example who created the form, who changed the form. We often use the functionality to track account changes, so this feature woul...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Impersonation should support admin accounts

Planning Alanytics Rest API supports impersonation of non-admin accounts only. Impersonation should also work for admin accounts.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup and Restore created reports

Export a lifecycle management asset from PAW to backup our more than 3000 reports somewhere and restore if required. We had an end user that has lost a report/view in personal folder which we could not restore. The end user needed to re-create the...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Messages improvements

From DVM Studio when selecting a BIGSQL table that the user is not authorized to, we get back a misleding Column metadata error. We would like to have a better handling of this situation.
about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Prevent SPT01 growth with new behaviour REBIND(EXTENDED) in Cod-Level M510

Before Codlevel M510, PHASEIN functionality was only used when the package was executing Since the implementation of Codlevel M510 (include PTF 73874 (APAR PH28693)), executing a REBIND with PLANMGMT(EXTENDED) will always store information in SYSP...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query (Data Virtualization)

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration