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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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Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show the progress and cancel option for a TI process in between while the process is running

We have created books in Planning Analytics Workspace and each book contains buttons which are linked tpo TI Process in backend. When a button is clicked TI Process starts executing there is no progress bar or anything shown neither there is an op...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 AI should discover and prevent deadlocks, for example in situations where programs that previously have been in deadlock situations are expected to deadlock again.

In deadlock situations, one of the involved programs will be rolled back, resources have been unnecessarily used and DBA’s must spend time investigating deadlocks. In transaction intensive systems deadlocks also may cause response time delays or o...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Customized PAW books theme

The background themes in PAW books have limited predefined colour options. The themes should be able to be customized on the basis of required RGB colour combination or image. There are times when clients want to use a different colour or image ra...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Config setting to disable auto-completion

Create a config setting that will allow users to disable the auto-completion functionality in PAW rules and TI.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Have pipeline retry interval to be configurable with no exponential backoff

StreamSets is currently implementing exponential backoff in pipeline retry logic. The wait time between retries starts at 15 seconds and doubles until reaching 5 minutes. Please add a function for pipeline retry interval to be configurable with no...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
4 months ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration