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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Concat in Websheets

Excel 2016 is not issuing a warning that concatenate is being replaced by concat. Please enable concat to work in TM1Web on websheets. As far as I can tell it has the same functionality. This is from the help on concatenate in Excel 2016:Important...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting

In previous versions it was possible to hide the message "Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting", which prevents users from submitting their running report into the background.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recognize csv formatted file, even if the file extension is missing/wrong

CSV formatted files are central to inputting data into Cognos Dashboard Embedded. If a user creates or is provided with a file where the extension was left off, or different, Cognos Dashboard Embedded will not allow you to import it (e.g. consider...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

DKIM

with e-mail spoofing on the rise the use of SPF, DKIM and DMARC are on the raise as Cognos Analytics can send e-mails out to user's it would be nice if Cognos Analytics could be configured to use DKIM with the e-mails so companies can use tighter ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistent handling for exportModel(), writeMIPStarts() , etc

The handling where methods like e.g. exportModel() and writeMIPStarts() is not consistent and not intuitive. In case no absolute path is specifies, exportModel() always writes the file parallel to the mod-file. Whereas writeMIPStarts(), while star...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

STET IN FEEDERS

NEED "STET" INSTRUCTION IN FEEDERS IN ORDER TO STOP FEEDERS FOR THE PAST YEARS ,VERSIONS, SEASONS .... IT'S QUITE EASY TO COPY/PAST CALCULATED DATA USING STET AT THE BEGINING OF RULES BUT IT'S A PAIN TO STOP FEEDERS FOR THIS DATA.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration