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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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Nothing prevents to ALTER a table in DB2 z/OS which is Archived in IDAA

As nothing prevents to ALTER a partitionned table on DB2 (ie add a column, change length of a column, ...) whose some partitions are archived on IDAA (with PRO status).Partitions on DB2 may be altered and not those on IDAA (active partition(s) : t...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Collaboration and deployment services does not pick up changes automatically to a modeler stream

CNDS lacks the ability to programmatically create and update Job definitions which are the heart of its execution framework leveraged by CFM SPSS Modeler. Currently Modeler Adapters do not have the availability to pick up changes made to a stream ...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Resuming support for duplet detection and not storing identical sequence values

In Safer Payments 6.3.0.01 it seems that duplet detection and the option for not storing identical sequence values for indexes are still not present. In the index create/edit page the "store entries with identical sequence values" checkbox is not ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove need to prefix numbers in import template with an apostrophe to stop them getting converted to decimals on import

If numbers in the import template are not prefixed with an apostrophe they get converted to decimals or exponential format if the number is large when the template is imported. Having to put that single quote in multiple attributes on the template...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Calibri Font

Provide the Calibri font as a core front option. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration