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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Unique Index, where one specific value can be duplicate

MR0125102749 GGDB209018Enhance the create index similar to the UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL clause
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

SEARCH stage in JOB DFD

Create a SEARCH by stage name Datastage in job in the DFD application. In order to facilitate the finding of the stages in DFD in large jobs.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Separate admin console

Separate admin console
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Content Backup/Restore

We would like the new Create and Manage Content to have the same abilities as the current Admin Console.., example being able to select a folder to backup to... PLUS, have the ability to lock down the Content Store access for Report Admin's... we ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for Advanced JDBC Connection parameters on ASM connections

When configuring IDR CDC Agent for Oracle databases having ASM stored redo and archive logs, and having crypto-checksumming parameters in sqlnet.ora, IDR CDC Agent take advanced JDBC configuration parameters when connecting to the Database but not...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration