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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.

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dbimport support for tenant databases

The database which is exported by dbexport is not possible to import as tenant database by dbimport. In the current implementation, the tenant database should be created by SQL Admin API first. dbimport is by default creating the new database as t...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide a means to quiesce individual TCH Connectors without causing timeouts

We need a way to quiesce individual connectors so TCH no longer sends us items on that connector. Stopping them in IIB would have that effect, but any messages TCH sends to that connector's queue will time out, causing failed transactions. We need...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

Caching TM1 Server authentication with TM1 nodes

To limit resource consumption, network traffic and requests of the TM1 server, Modeler should cache the authentication portion of the TM1 Server communication for reuse during the current session. Authentication should happen once per 'session' ra...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Display subcategories when clicking on Category node

Currently you have to click on the number between parenthesis to get the subcategories list. It should also work when clicking on the actual category node and not in the number.
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Allow TCH Connectors to read non-admin messages from all available queues rather than just 1.

By design, the HA configuration of FTM has a 1:1 relationship between its 4 connectors and and 4 corresponding TCH servers for credit transfers and other business messages. This presents problems of timeouts for in-flight credit transfer messages ...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

MDM CE Multi Edit Screen is very slow with items and doesn't have paging

When users view all catalog items on Multi Edit Screen and try to scroll them, the load takes a lot of time because as we know, MDM CE loads all items between that last loaded and items on which the window is focused.
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Name of the macro-enabled .xslm websheet needs correction in .blob file

With the older versions (which would connect to TM1 via PMHUB), the websheet names were same in .blob as well as .xlsm. However, any of the new versions that use the ODATA connection from PA for Excel to connect to TM1, has been displaying GUID na...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Register Windows service without starting it

Would like an option in Cognos Configuration to register the service without starting it (for example having a option available by right-clicking on the IBM Cognos object in the explorer). This would allow the user to then go and modify the servic...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration