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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Configuration setting to limit the report retention settings and hide from users

We are a hosted solution that offers Cognos to multiple clients. We want to restrict users from storing too many saved report executions due to space constraints on our hosted content store.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve specific catalog version after change in web UI

On the left panel of MDM CE web UI the catalog version can be changed.Then when selecting an item, data that are displayed in tabs must correspond to catalog selected version.For custom tabs there's no way to get the current version of the catalog...
over 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upload own Maps for PAw

Would like to be able to upload other Map types to match data to Map Visualization.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encryption of the requests to the web server

Use some element of encryption or encoding in the backend responses so that sensitive data is not interpreted by an attacker/third party.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

db2val should allow to receive credencial as parameters

The db2val command cannot check databases when using a external security plugin like Centrify. In this case, this command should allow to specify the user and password to connect to a database.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – After selecting ‘Continue and Close’ on workflow actions, display Home Page rather than last opened tab

When a user wants to complete a workflow action and close the form, they did not expect the screen to open up one of the previously open tabs. They would much prefer it to show the HomePage.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration