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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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WEX AC official support to MS2016

Currently, WEXAC is only officially supported up to MS2010. However, the majority of users use MS2016 as their data source. In its current state, you should officially support MS2016, as you will not be able to get support from the developer in ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a detailed log for the import/export of Cognos BI deployments which shows all the sucess/failure status of all objects

As of now, to know whether the cognos BI deployment is successful or not, we have a high level summary status of deployment of success/fail in Cognos BI portal. Similar high level information is available in cogserver.log in the Cognos install dir...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Hints based upon Role

We need the ability to Hide the Hints, either globally or by user role. Sometimes the hints refer to items that the user will not be authorized to see, thus they do not make sense for the user to see it. Example: a Hint says "this is where you wou...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Migration using DVM - Migration of any data source to RDBMS .

In present world, there are N number of systems running in Mainframes, especially IMS DB, ADABAS, VSAM datasets. When an enterprise is needy to move the data present in above sources into a DB2 Data source to support their modern applications usin...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to access Cognos Administration through a specific URL only

An additional option is requested to access IBM Cognos Administration through a separate Gateway URI only. Currently access to IBM Cognos Administration can only be restricted by capabilities.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define distribution key on tables created when using CREATE EVENT MONITOR

DB2 Warehouse on cloud currently decides the best key to use to distribute the data on event monitor tables and DOES NOT use the PARTITION_KEY column. In some circumstances the user may wish to have control over the distribution key applied. This ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to link DVM subsystem with z/OS Connect Service Provider in Preferences

Within DVM Studio, we are able to add multiple z/OS Connect Service Providers in the preferences section. When refreshing or executing the web services, the top entry is always used. If DVM cannot dynamically determine which z/OS Connect server is...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration