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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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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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Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Accessible Prompts

We need all prompt types to be accessible and 508 compliant. We have reports that require a user be able to input a date range, but IBMs documentation indicates the calendar date prompts are not accessible.
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

To support any other WIF connection properties with Manta needs product enhancement.

MDI and MDE jobs using Google BigQuery and WIF are working fine. The existing WIF connections are not working with Manta Data Lineage MDI jobs. Currently, Manta only supports the "Client email", "Private key" and "Oauth2 Endpoint URI" with WIF con...
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
28 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted