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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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Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Action V (Display SQL text) should show SQL in ISPF VIEW session

Presenting the SQL text directly in ISPF VIEW/EDIT will give the user direct access to all the brilliant commands in ISPF VIEW/EDIT including EDIT macros and CUT/PASTE. This will be much faster than first EXPORT and then enter ISPF VIEW/EDIT on th...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Extend the TM1 Rest API to replicate the existing functionality in the legacy C API

The REST API lacks similar functionality in manipulating BLOB objects. TM1 Legacy C API - Allows to WRITE n bytes at a starting position x within an existing BLOBhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=c-tm1blobput However, with...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration