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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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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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DataStage Audit

Management needs the ability to track the following: => logins by user and time => logout by user and time => All changes made by selected user within the project => When time changes were made by the selected user by project(s) and by...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Access data of SP's WLM DSSPRINT DD in execution time when called from external program (ex. Cobol)

Hi IBM, We opened CASE TS003473597 to treat this issue but as we did not have solution from you we decide to ask it by "new idea". So we have some maintenance COBOL programs that make the call to the SP DSNUTILU to run some db2 utilities, so then ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reload View button in Cube Viewer

In Cube Viewer, add the button called "Reload View" as found in Architect\Perspectives. This is helpful when a user drags dimensions around so they can return to the original state of the view.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Editable cells indicated by using color styles for PA Views in the crosstab widget on the PAW or ease of use data entry

Interaction - editable cells indicated using color styles for PA views - In current deployments (TM1 classis with websheets), users are used to see gray cells if no input is possible on the cell. For example, because the plan version is locked for...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Move Questionnaire functionality from LifeCycle to New Embedded Workflow

Looking to enable the Questionnaire functionality to utilize the Embedded Workflow engine instead of or in addition to the Lifecycle functionality. It will be much easier for customers to create their own workflows that would control the flow inst...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Revise the manual

We received the following feedback from our customers about the Modeler documentation. Please consider the following points when creating manuals for future versions. - Even if you read the installation manual, the path of the options.cfg file and...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Provide a Docker container solution for IIDR CDC/Remote Data Capture/Db2/IMS/Kafka

Provide a docker container do run IIDR replication on a S90x container to run in a Kubernetes environment
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to refresh db/node directory cache to an active instance

When an instance is active, it reads the db directory and node directory information and the instance keeps it in a cache. This catalog is used for federation, to connect to remote databases. If for some reason, it is necessary to modify the direc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration