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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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Personnalize comments

The option to personalize comments are very not friendly.We should be able to modify the comment color directly from the menu.A suggestion is to let appear the color selection directly in the menu when a comment is selected. Also a must have would...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists

Closing streams

A very useful functionality would be to be able to close streams with a shortcut (usually ctrl + w). Currently I have to right click on each streams then "close the streams" it's not user friendly.For Mac, Windows also.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Avoid engine crash during page reads after hardware failure

the index was corrupted by a hardware malfunction, it was not corrupted by Informix, so there were very likely index pages that had been zeroed out, or had garbage on them. When engine try to access the corrupted index or data page it crashes de i...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Externalize the IFI abend count

We would like a method to externalize the IFI abend count so we can be proactive about identifying IFI abends and prevent IFI and the monitor trace being disabled. Alternatively there could be a msg externalized when the count gets to various thre...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control][RFE] client certificate authentication

There should be an option to require login to Platform PMC, connection to EGO REST API, connection to Symphony Admin wsdl API, and connections from symphony client to use client certificate authentication. For example of what this is, see here htt...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Enable Full Multitenancy features with Cognos Analytics UI

Currently the old Cognos Connection is required to use Multi-Tenancy features in Cognos Analytics. Customers want to have all features available using only the new Cognos Analytics UI.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement]Support for asynchronous log4j logging

Citi would like to make a pitch for asynchronous logging that is supported in log4j2. See below link for details:https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html Having this feature in Sym7.1.x is going to be a value add given that companies...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Remote DB2 connections via Universal Diver T4 not well balanced.

Sysplex workload balancing does not guarantee that executions are distributed among the available systems. It depends on the capacity of the systems (WLM choose systems with more CPs/ZIIPs), performance index of enclaves, and DB2 system health (fr...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration
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Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration