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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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New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Include user first and last name in user selector fields that are exported from UI

When users export from FLV to create fastmap templates, user selector fields are exported with user id only, and many times the user may be an employee id/non-descript identifier, so it would be great to have an export option where the user select...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

AWS IAM Role Compatibility with S3 Connections

Problem Statement/Pain Points: We work with a government agency who has specific security requirements and we are utilizing Cloud Pak for Data within their environment. They have a need for utilizing S3 Data Connections to resources in AWS GovClou...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Watson Colorblind Functionality

Currently 1 in 12 men, and 1 in 200 women have some issue with colorblindness. That is about 300 million people world-wide. If a user had a colorblind issue, Watson Discovery is unusable. I would suggest to the developers that they turn their scre...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

ODBC and JDBC support for CockroachDB

Getting the following error messages trying to connect to CockroachDB using the ODBC PostgreSQL Wire Protocol diriver or JDBC driver:
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Charts triggered by attributes

A TM1 element (e.g. a certain scenario) within a dashboard should have the same color in each and every chart. Currently, you have to define that chart by chart.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration