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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.

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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Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Need ability to set the custom login page as default login page using SDK or some background process not from UI manually

We have created a sample login page, welcome page and our Own theme. But we don't want to import them using the UI - Manage-customization- extensions, rather we want to do it using SDK or some process like import content deployment and make them a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for multiple worker threads on SSL port

Allow for more than one worker thread to handle connections coming into SSL port. Feature should be able to allow for customization of number of threads (Ex: sslportalias-4 where 4 equals number of threads to be used)
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022

As MS SQL Server 2022 is expected to be released in mid 2022, when will IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022 ?
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SQLHOSTS groups connect to non-primary

Include at SQLHOSTS options specific for groups to allow connection for non-pimary serversSomething like : conn_sec = 1 Then , the client will be able to connect at any server of the group, no matter if it is Primary / HDR / RSS / SDS. ... Today i...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 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...
about 5 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 b...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration