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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.

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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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

Parameter display WORKSTATION USER ID and WORKSTATION NAME

We use InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS Remote Source v. 11.4.0.2 and we have detected that the following properties are not displayed in the details of the DDF SUMMARY in the MAINVIEW monitor: WORKSTATION USER ID WORKSTATION NAME These par...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

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

Allow JGate to run X wide on a highly available env w/op the need to manually configure each instance

We have the need to run several instances of JGate on separate LPARs on the same plex and configure DVM to load balance between the instances on order to handle situations where one LPAR goes down. Currently, these instances are completely separat...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

mcfaee Activate

Mcafee is all in one security provider for your everyday computing needs. It can be your daily use Andriod device or your fancy iOS device. Really being among the best security platforms where you can buy products at reliable prices. This is reall...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Active Session

It was observed that the application maintains multiple login session from two different browser and two different physical system.
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Creation of HVP message containing BAH by using MER

Customer wants ‘MER’ to have the capability to create HVP message when HVP+ standards is applied for those Local clearing&settlement organizations. So, the basic idea is having a function to validate HVP messages, similar with the verification...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration