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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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unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Increase (over current limit of 10000) the value for Zparm MAXARCH

Is it possible to increase (over current limit of 10000) the value for Zparm MAXARCH (archive log volumes that are to be recorded in the BSDS). Our Production System sometimes cuts over 5,000 Archive Logs in the business' standard Image Copy reten...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Personal Workspace

Personal Workspace is not implemented in PAW. It works in TM1Web and Architect. We need this functionality for the transition from TM1Web to PAW.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow creation "user named" hdfs files in Analytic Server

Although you can create Analytic Server Output that will write data in hdfs, it is generally creates a folder with the AS output name and a set of partition files inside it. On rerun, even if "overwrite" option is chosen on the AS Export node, new...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

PAX Task Pane After Login

Additional feature to enable/disable launching task pain after login in Planning Analytics for Excel. This would mimic the behavior of "Connect" vs. "Explorer" in Perspectives.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add quick help to RTM graphs when hovering the mouse on top of the graph

Show short help for each RTM graph while user hovers the mouse on top of the graph. Short help should have information of purpose of the graph and units of X and Y axels.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF doesn't allow multiple LOAN policies on the same hosts

LSF has limitation in SLA LOAN_POLICIES configuration by having only one loan duration time available. It would be great, if SLA LOAN_POLICIES can support option to LOAN for different time to different queues. For example:LOAN_POLICIES = QUEUES[ge...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support for DB2 v12 for z/OS

Need for a customer to use SPSS Modeler with data stored in DB2 version 12 on Z/OS. Some test that have been conducted by the customer show that using the provided odbc driver (which supports up to v11.1) seems to work perfectly. However, official...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Show notes for Inspector obsolete records

Entity records tab does not display notes icon for obsolete records that have a note. See PMR 30848,756,000
about 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration