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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.

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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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Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Information Server (DataStage) to support SSSD Authentication

We are currently on VAS authentication and planning to move towards SSSD. Upon checking with the support team (TS003331443) we were informed that the product is not supported for SSSD Authentication. Can you please work on a way to get this SSSD a...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

8.2 Workflow End Stages - set Notify Oversight to FALSE by default

Currently when editing a workflow and either changing an existing stage to an end stage, or creating a new end stage, the default setting for Notify Oversight is TRUE. This setting is not expanded by default so it is easy to spot the email is set ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 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

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...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release