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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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Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives

Modify HDR code to add a state whereby the secondary server can be allowed to perform ontape and onbar archives. Whether the server can remain in secondary mode or must be changed to an intermediary mode are both acceptable options, as long as the...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User Management as a Roles Permission

Move User Management Privileges from Global Privileges to a Role permission. Currently, user management is permissioned via a global privilege on a user's account. When the "user accounts" privilege is set to "change," the user can view and edit a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Add object Tags to be reportable in Cognos

Tags are a great function within OpenPages. As a 'flag' that can be searched on this also needs to be added to the reporting framework so it can be utilised by Cognos. This will replicate the same behaviour when exporting objects with multiple ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Runtime resource files - support for encryption and decryption at runtime within the pipeline using keys from azure key vault

Humana is successful with using exec function in credential store by fetching encryption keys from Azure key vault. They are looking for similar feature/implementation for resource files, specifically encrypting resource files and decrypting them ...
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Don't delete RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate, we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Countr...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

PAfE installation guide on Azure Virtual Desktop

It is a very common practice for organization to deploy application via VDI approach such as AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop). This is a very common practice and currently my organization is informed by IBM Support that this has not been officially sup...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration