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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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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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Display notification messages in a different area of the UI so they do not cover buttons

In fix pack 3 when an item is created or moved to a different step in the workflow a message will appear in the top right of the UI but it either fully or partially covers the 'Take Action' button which means a user has to take the extra step to c...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Adding Statistical Metric to Computation Methods

Currently, the computation methods available within SP for profiling attributes is limited. For example, for calendar profiles all that is available is: average amount, frequency, total amount . Standard Deviation is available for this category of...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

TM1 Server is Ready Alert

Currently we have alerts set when the windows services associated with a TM1 server instance stops and when it is "running", however, these alerts are not a true indicator that the server instance is available/online in PA for our users as it is n...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration