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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Split Data Modules to two : "Data clean" & "Data Modeling" tools

Data Module contains several features and becomes a real gas factory, far from a "self service" tool for a user, even advanced. I think it would be interesting to divide it into two tools. One to integrate and clean the data and another oriented r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log out screen for SSO implementation

IBM OpenPages ver. 9.0.0. has default session log out page with available User ID and Password fields (see picture no 1). This is ok however for implementations using SSO standard security requirement forbid such setting as a potential vulnerabili...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

A new DB2 option to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed

A new DB2 option is needed to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed.Granularity is required based on profile tables specifying connection type,exclusion list, business value, effort to rollback.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Tool to check SSL certificate connectivity with KEYSECURE

Need some way to check if provided SSL certificate for secured connection to KEYSECURE is indeed valid before putting it in kmip cfg. This reduces the risk of any issues with SSL certificate on actual implementation day on production system.
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration