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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support for Podman based runtime for launching IBM Infosphere MDM AE Container images

Infosphere MDM container images are pulled from IBM container registry (us.icr.io) using the Docker Compose Yaml files released by IBM for each versions of MDM AE images. Ford Motor Company currently has Redhat Openshift container platform v...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Capability to Hide/Remove Export to Excel option from Workspace

We are looking to secure option to take report Export in Excel/CSV for all BI tools. This would mean that only selected users those are part of a particular user group will be allowed to run report in Excel/CSV. We had raised multiple PMRs and exp...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability for "Copy and Edit" option in "More"

when I am copying an object, it is usually because I need to make a change via editing the object. It would be really helpful to add to the "more" list, Copy and Edit.I make a copy, rename it and OK, then I need to edit object to make the changes ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to export workspace Folder and Books permission

Please enable the option to export Folder and Book permissions so that permissions for all the Folders and Books can be exported in one go. The feature will help client's review folder and book permissions in one go and help with their securit...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

DataStage Kafka Connector should support schema compatibility set to FULL

Kafka Connector job failed with schema compatibility mode set to FULL. We got error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409". Currently user has to change the Kafka schema compatibility mode to NONE from Po...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow a single SMTPE to be used for multiple DIREs

We have a need for IT administrative staff to have 2 profiles. One with lesser permissions for everyday tasks and one with additional monitoring and security. Both profiles need the ability to run the SNDSMTPEMM command form within various applica...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Sync Cognos Analytics with PAW when removing users

Hello, To add a user, We first invite the user from PAW, User accepts and then if the user is a Cognos Controller user, we have to add the user in a Controller Users group for user to be able to access Controller. If a user leaves and we delete th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Temp folder when using TM1Web should clear itself periodically by PASS.

When using TM1Web in some projects, Excel sheets that are published in a web application create temp files when they are opened. These are generated in "C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1web\webapps\tm1web\excelsheet", i.e. in the installation direct...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for the bulk update of a secondary specification in PIM V12

We have over 300 secondary specs defined within our implementation of PIM. We can assign one of these secondary specs to a level of our merch hierarchy. Due to the disparate nature of our secondary specs, we need the ability to be able to select a...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Unlimited field length for MDM

Client has MDM and EPIC. They have already extended the field length once but changes in EPIC mean they are sending fields with more characters than MDM supports so they get truncated. The request is to allow for unlimited field length in MDM. The...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 6 Functionality already exists