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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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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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Delete Old Platform Connections

As source systems are phased out of organizations, there is a need to remove previously configured platform connections in cloud pak for data, particularly when any assets from that platform connection have been removed from cloud pak for data. We...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Is a defect

Parametarized URL, passing Datasource Signon

For some datasource we have several Signon used for different group of people. Some people have suffisant privilege to use more than one Signon, so when launching a report, they are prompted for the Signon to use. The reports are launched from int...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show description of data asset by Magazine view in Knowledge Catalog data asset list

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points The customer can't see the data asset description in Knowledge Catalog's data asset list. -state your current workaround(s) Now the customer see the description by opening the ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Allow to Hide Instructions in Reports

Currently, when running reports in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service (SOAR), the reports do not allow us to hide the instructions, making the report longer than necessary. It affects all users in the organization that have access to the platform. Pr...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Not under consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

During the assessment it was observed that there was Cleartext transmission of sensitive information like username and password in the application.

FixIt is recommended to configure servers to use encrypted channels for communication by implementing TLS.It is also recommended to encrypt the passwords , It is recommended to not send any sensitive information in plain text. It should be either ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

LOAD utility by pass checking pending status for empty tables

When LOAD utility is run on a referentially integrated table (child table) while both parent and child tables are empty (no rows) let DB2 refer to RTS data and decide NOT to put the table in CHECK PENDING status.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Recycle Bin (Restore option) for Deleted queries

It is too easy to delete queries, especially when you have hundreds of them with no option to sort or filter. Accidentally deleted queries can (most time) easily restored by renaming the "marked as deleted" items that Safer Payments already automa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Not under consideration