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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.

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Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance User ID and Password encryption algorithm

Please advise to enhance encryption algorithm on User ID and Passowrd to AES 128 bit or higher during authentication and store in system.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Track changes in structure/row definition/column definition/Axes for user defined reports in controller

We need to track the changes of structure/row definition/column definition/Axes and report changes for user defined reports
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

ibm supported schema registry component in the CDC replication solution

When using IBM's CDC to write to Kafka, there is a dependency on utilising the Confluenet Schema registry.To move this to product, regulation requires a support contract, thus requiring license on the Confluent platform.Remove tight coupling to Co...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Display Dynamic Priority (for project group nodes)

Ability to display dynamic priority in License scheduler for project group nodes. Currently if priority is not set on a particular level there is no way to display the preemption order, which makes it difficult to explain the decision-making proce...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Enable the OpenPages platform to have documents associated with GRC process stored in an external platform to avoid duplication and point file storage solutions

Core to this idea is that the workflow, business process and data capture is mastered in OpenPages, but the associated documentation is stored in an enterprise content management solution (example IBM's Enterprise Content Management). This could ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release