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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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DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start Excel exclusively with Perspectives or PAx

You told me that it is not possible to have 2 shortcuts on the same computer with these characteristics: 1) starting Excel with Perspectives and without PAx 2) starting Excel with PAx and without Perspectives Only user interventions in Excel/optio...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

User defined Grid Columns

Introduce the ability for users to amend columns in a grid view swapping in and out object fields
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Incorporate standard logging of events on OpenPages application server

Our company have a standard in submitting all application logs to our enterprise SIEM tool for monitoring. We had inquired with the OpenPages Product Support team but their response was at the time, no standard messaging capabilities - see TS00260...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

Enable the Usage of alt. Hierarchies in SUBNM Formulas

When creating a custom or dynamic report the SUBNM element selection is pretty much the heart of those. Allowing Hierarchies to be used in the SUBNM element selection can drastically enhance the end user experience by tailoring the visible element...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to DCLGEN utility to support conditional compilation based on whether the SQL option is used

Some non-Db2 programs use the member created by the DCLGEN utility as a copy member because they are processing a file with the same layout as the COBOL portion of the DCLGEN member. The DCLGEN generated member contains a DECLARE TABLE statement, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the limitation in ISTOOL for Extension Mapping Document import for CP4D

We opened a ticket for the error (file.csv exceeds 5120KB, skipping it...) we were getting when we tried to import extension mapping document using istool in IIS 1.7.1 (see ticket # TS012233188). IBM tech told us that this is a limitation for ISTO...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

NewUI - Need better clarity on the count of categories/items at category level

Consider the scenario, when a parent category has 2 child categories and each child category has only items mapped to it. Here in the NewUI, the parent category hovers (Category contains 2 subcategories and 0 items) Parent Category ( 2/0 ) Child C...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration