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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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Dynamic PDF Secure Password

Customers want to leverage the PDF Secure Password functionality but want the password abstracted away to stored in a database rather than hardcoded in the Cognos job or schedule.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Is a defect

Read access on the database in rollforward pending

Enable to select a table when a database is still in rollforward pending (at the end of a rollforward without the clause stop or complete)
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

HTML report formatting in Google Mail

Our company has changed to use Google Mail and HTML reports generated by Cognos with the content embedded in the body lose their formatting as Google Mail has this "feature" that they strip out styling that doesn't follow their rules. It would be ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Diag Lookup Tool

Provide a tool on IBM Support that show a better explanation of the message on db2diag.log according to the message. Some db2diag messages are difficult to understand.
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

current IMS log reader TAPE contention behavior needs to be improved during change stream activation

Please refer to the PMR 02209,69G,760 and APAR PI71320 submitter page.--- start of the APAR quotation ---The current IMS log reader VTS contention behavior needs to be improved. Contention occurs when the IMS log reader attempts to access an archi...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Improve Jupyter Notebooks behaviour to allow SSL only at the Gateway.

In earlier 11.2.x versions (pre-11.2.3), it was possible to enable SSL on the Optional Gateway, but still be able to access Jupyter Notebooks via both the Gateway and (non-SSL) dispatcher, as the communication between the Dispatcher and Jupyter wa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 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...
over 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.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration