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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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New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 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

SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration management in COGNOS Connection Portal

Users accessing COGNOS Connection portal are not notified wen their password has expired and get an "invalid login/password" error message.They have no way of resetting their asswrd and an administrator action is required.We would like to have the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Allow admins to modify or delete labels

Labels provide a convenient and effect way to manage analytical assets but there is no mechanism for editing/modifying/deleting incorrect labels or those no longer needed.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration