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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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unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
almost 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

REST API support to collect unrelated event and triggers from NPS appliance and containers.

We are looking for REST API support which can deliver all uncorrelated events for appliance and NPS databases with the attributes like event id, type, start/stop dates, severity, description and etc in the form of JSON body, Which can also directl...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Not under consideration

Secure "attach report to email" as a package or report level capability

Within an organization, different data owners often have different policies about attaching data/reports to email. Cognos Analytics should support a more granular configuration for this permission.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Generate reporting periods in an automatic and scheduled way

New reporting periods are generated by user in OpenPages manually. It would be very helpful a new function to schedule the creation of reporting periods when you create them always at the same moment in the month, quarter or year.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Not under consideration

DB2 V9.7

When doing the case sensitive search, the index on ALT_IDENTIFIER is used correctly, and the query takes around 0.2 seconds as expected. When doing the case insensitive search, the optimiser correctly uses the V_N1999152021 column rather than the ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to format selector widget (List) in PAW

Depending on the dimension or set (number of elements and the length of the element names), the selector widget can take a lot of space (I am only referring to the list visualization and not the slider). It is of course possible to reduce the size...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

Please provide support for current versions of Ubuntu. Version 14.04 is not supported by Canonical anymore. Support for version 16.04 will expire soon, too. New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

CDC Kafka KCOP to be able to subscribe any replication event

In current version of KCOP it is limited to subscribing to these replication event types: ReplicationEventTypes.BEFORE_INSERT_EVENT, ReplicationEventTypes.BEFORE_DELETE_EVENT, ReplicationEventTypes.BEFORE_UPDATE_EVENT KCOP should be allowed to s...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration