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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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connection to MariaDB

I have the need to connect to MariaDB, so I configured ODBC.ini, but when I searched and tried several libs, the connection was not possible. When opening a call to IBM support, I was told that there is really no official support for MariaDB and I...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Unable to change server in exploration reports in PAX

Currently in exploration mode it is not possible to edit the field which contains the server name which the report refers to. You simply cannot change the value. In the quick report properties e.g. this is possible. See attached screenshots. Can y...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Eliminate display limit when exploding application profiles

We recently had a need to use the Recovery Expert to recover all objects (tablespaces and indexes) in a database with a large number of objects in it. There are about 540 tables and just over 1000 indexes in the database. I created an application ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Expose Global Search Capability for Custom Attributes from UI

When I create a Asset Custom Attribute from IU I cannot make the field globally searchable. I know API has the capability to make the attribute searchable. When will be the global_search_searchable flag be added to UI?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Quick command to "Blue box" in PAW

Our users feels that there sometimes is difficult to go through the blue box to be able to export to excel. It is especially difficult if it is a large view and a small screen, when they feel that they can't always get hold of the blue box. They w...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Encryption for Informix backup.

Informix 12.10 fc8 has file level encryption available in the database. However, from my understanding if you do a backup, this file in not encrypted. Can we have a method to perform a databack that keeps the encryption in the backup data.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

CQMINTV - Empty intervals listing causes slowness

CQMINTV command struggles when it lists too many empty intervals(AVAIL NO). Our DBAs were quite unhappy when they figured out the issue. The problem was when the backstore datasets are removed/deleted from the disc and when CQMINTV list those as e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Delivered

Restrict access on shared folder in Workspace

Want to restrict the access for Analyst role to only save Books in personal folder.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Provide an Operation Level Timestamp for Each Operation

Current DB2 for Z and DB2 LUW shared only the commit timestamp. Only DB2 Z also has the TS of the actual DDL time To emulate like they did for oracle to have a switch to send the DDL time instead of the UOW TS This is for the client -->FEDEX , ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered