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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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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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IIS DataStage needs encryption key rotation

The latest version of IIS DataStage 11.7.1 has no documented ability to be able to change any keys used to encrypt password type data in the product. Security best practices are to periodically rotate the keys.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Allow Future Values in Data for Time Series Modeling

A beer producer may want to incorporate the Super Bowl as an event in its week-based time series forecasts. The effect could be included in the source data as a flag field, in which 1's are entered for weeks in which the Super Bowl has occurred in...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Custom folders should be included in OPEN and SAVE dialog boxes...

If you are customizing a cognos analytics portal and remove the teamfolder to simplify the handling for the enduser (Extensions), there is a problem with accessing things between two customfolders. Example: Create a Reportview in one cutomfolder...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Brief of AM

Last year AM held a project whose objective was to configure the consolidation structures in order to obtain correct results at different consolidation subgroups, alas many problems arose since in AM’s company structure a subgroup belongs to many ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Modify DSNTIJRT/DSNTRIN to make use of new DESCSTAT package bind option

On DB2 ZOS, the JAVA DatabaseMetaData methods are implemented through the use of a set of IBM provided stored procedures. The stored procedures related DB2 packages are bound to DB2 through job DSNTIJRT, program DSNTRIN. The installation procedure...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

controller datasource

Provide support for Controller datasource in Cognos analytics
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Define ES path.data at install or remind to set it after install.

When install LSF Explorer server + ElasticSearch, there's no way to define ES' path.data parameter and the parameter always set to default, which may not be the correct location. At least in installation guide or after installation completed, remi...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Error message change required while attempting to create a service on Lite Plan

Customers are trying to create an Analytics Engine service on a Lite Plan and see the following error: "[500, Internal Server Error] Service provisioned failed. Try again later. You will now be redirected to the console dashboard."
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

InformixHQ - Backup Sensor

I would kike InformixHQ Backup Sensor notify me whenever Backup Level 0 is greater than 24 (hours). But the Backup Sensor did not work with "hours format", just "timestamp", so It is impossible to know when the backup is older than 24 hours becau...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

API to Retrieve Chat History

An API to retrieve the chat history per session or conversation ID. Currently the only way to do this is through the Logs API, and this is a lengthy and complicated process.
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration