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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,

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  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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Improve automatic space management

Improve the usability of Automatic Space Management for multi-tiered storage systems.Our system is using backend storage systems where not all disks/LUNs are created with equal speed/bandwidth/latency and other performance factors. Informix storag...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

How to clone IIS environment

Our IIS environment consists of 3 tiers:• Services tier host• Engine tier host• Metadata repository on Oracle database We are looking into way how to “clone” such an environment and produce a new environment, which is placed on different...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Cross Track from Cognos report should open in a tab in the OpenPages UI

When using cross track from a Cognos report to an OpenPages object it opens in a new browser window. This is very confusing for the user. Instead, it should open as a tab in the OpenPages interface, in the same browser tab.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Montoring / Altering via SNMP

We miss a feature to send alerting SNMP traps about WSL alerts (see https://content-dsxlocal.mybluemix.net/docs/content/SSAS34_current/local/alerts.html) Currently only mail to administrators works. This is not very well integration into our compa...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Cognos mobile for Blackberry Dynamics: support a connection via a proxy

The current version of Cognos Mobile for Blackberry Dynamics only supports a direct connection. For security reasons we are using a proxy sever and have connection problems using de Cognos mobile app.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

We need a connector from Db2 zOS to AWS DynamoDB, please, with sugar!

There is no straightforward way to use IIDR to replicate from Db2 zOS to DynamoDB on AWS. I think many customers could benefit from this additional capability.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the setting of a global option make LOAD jobs fail if a PRESORT cannot be performed

UET will be withdrawn from support next year and its use needs to be removed. To do this the newly provided support for the PRESORT keyword in the LOAD utility needs to be the same and consistent as the functionality that UET provided for PRESORT....
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration