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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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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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Change IIS Datastage Cerdential Mapping Model to work with Service IDs that have password set to NP in /etc/shadow file

Bank of America GIS (Global Information Security) Team has asked “InfoSphere Data stage Service ID's (dsadm and others) on Engine Tier to be disabled for interactive login”. GIS policies mandate that Service ID logins should be done through a ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to Restore data and object structure of an application instance from a selected snapshot

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
over 5 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to display the status of HSM

Since Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS makes extensive use of DFHSM it would be useful to view the current status of HSM from within RE. Questions such as: Is HSM operational? Have previous offloads been completed? Are there any issues with HSM before...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Item Export sheet should show the drop-down list of Display Attribute for Lookup type attribute.

Current Behaviour: When we export the item, the lookup attribute is exported only as a primary key(the drop-down list contains primary key.) Idea/Requirement: In the Item Export for the lookup type attribute user should have choice to export as pr...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

change display time for multiple objects on story mode

When using a story that contains multiple objects, changing the display times for all objects is very difficult. Not all objects align to the exact same end time therefor it may look unprofessional. My suggestion is, 1. First option is to add to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Child prompts does not get auto selected.

child prompts are not auto selected when its respective parent is selected.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have LSF track the number of status changes and requeues for a job over time

Basically, right now, there is no way to look at LSF's jobInfo record to know how many times a job has been requeued via either a pre-exec/jobstarter failure, or from a manual requeue. Additionally, there is no way to determine how many times a jo...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration