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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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Setup Automatic Alerts when Background Report Execution is Queued Up

when multiple reports are running at the same time as background process, lets say one of the bad report caused most of the reports into pending state. we would like to have a feature that can alert us indicating multiple reports are in pending st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to change their language in profile

Our application is used by people from different countries. At the moment the only option of changing the language in CP4D is to change the default one in the browser. Having the option either on main page or profile would be a lot easier.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Planned for future release

Enabling Single Sign-On for IIS web clients (thin clients) using eTAI within WebSphere Application Server

Need formal support for IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) Enhanced Trust Association Interceptor (eTAI) as a web-SSO mechanism for IIS thin clients (web apps) proxied through ISAM WebSEAL. The eTAI works fine on IE but not on Firefox. It is proba...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Selectable storage class for Storage Volumes

Cloudpak 4 Data in 3.5+ allows users to create (user) storage volumes from the UI. This feature has three options, one is 'external NFS'. This request is only applicable for this alternative. Technically this creates a PV and a matching PVC on the...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

DANGER- Require Spreading Shortcuts to ensure Users intent - OR DATA WILL BE LOST

To perform a Proportional Spread in the older TM1 UIs (Custom Reports & Dynamic Reports) on had to lead the number with a "P" For example P1000 to proportionally spread data. In Explorations, Quick Reports and the Cube Viewer, you do not need ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Possibility to add a reconciliation rule between an Intercompany account and an Investment account

It would be beneficial if it was possible to enter reconciliation rules between Intercompany accounts and Investment accounts (defined with Investment code I (Acquisition calculation). Both of the IC-accounts and Investment accounts are used for g...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Errors with Change Data Capture need to be relevant and precise

When running IDAA using Change Data Capture in a high availability configuration, error messages which are passed to DB2 should be limited to the subscription which took the error so that the error is relevant and resolution is quick.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support the INLINE Optimizer Guidelines in SQC

The Inline hint is not working in .sqc due to C-style comment syntax.This feature really makes the query tuning simple.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration