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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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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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Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set t...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
19 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
20 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

frozen one-column horizontal scrolling display

Hello, I'd like to know if it's possible to freeze a column (in this case 2024_w) so that when you scroll to the right, you keep the column displayed.
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

StartupChores in V12

StartupChores is not accessible in V12. Update the instance configuration interface to allow the setup of StartupChores parameter in V12. As of 20/05/2024 the documentation mentions this parameter is not part of the deprecated functions but unfort...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1

Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
3 months ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Submitted

Add user from Active Directory in PAW

Comparable to adding users in Perspectives (Server > Security > Clients/Groups ... > Add new client) the function to add a user from the Active Directory is currently missing.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add permissions for queries

In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Future consideration

Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration