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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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Make ifxcollect dump location configurable

The directory used by ifxcollect is hardcoded to $INFORMIXDIR/isa/data.This breaks as soon as IDS has been upgraded to a new version/special build and needs manual intervention which can be forgotten easily. What would probably work much better if...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change Identifier of Uploaded Files.

When user uploads a file the Identifier has the same name of file. When the user changes the names, the Identifier continues with the old name.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

C11.1.1 Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane

Default option when creating a new report is Show properties pane. Users are getting confused as why it is blank. Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane will help entire user population.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Compliance with SM1, SM2, SM3 and SM4 encryption

Chinese legal requirements for Planning Analytics 2.0.9.1, and this is the encryption requirement: The National Cryptographic Algorithm is a series of algorithms formulated by the National Cryptographic Bureau. Including symmetric encryption algor...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CA Security View for Administrators

There should be an easy way for a CA Administrator to review security for users or groups. At the moment, we can't select a user and see what their membership is. This would also be useful to review what membership a group has to other groups.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Font Options text in Bullet Charts

Working on creating a dashboard, I am using a bullet chart. I have an Actual bar and a Target. Then I have it repeated (rows). I find that I can't change the text color on the Row text, it's black. I also don't see where I can customize the color ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Dashboard Text Items and Visualization Titles to Reflect Parameters

In report studio, a text item can be set to be equal to the value of a parameter, allowing titles to show what that page/visualization/table is being filtered by. For example, if there is a filter by state, and the current filter is on Ohio, the t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

GOC - ADB2W1 should have ability to view the WSL. Has edit but if change is inadvertently made, you need to remember to Cancel

There should be a way to just view the WSL like the Edit. View would display the information protected from update.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Data traffic encryption

IBM Netezza Performance Server does not support data traffic encryption when Kerberos authentication is enabled. All data is sent in open text despite kerberos having the functionality to encrypt data transfer. This is a huge security gap that sho...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration