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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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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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Category updates not reflected in Audit History

Currently Item audit history table only keeps changed attributes information, for example old value/new value of attributes. Category mapping information are not captured. This feature is not there in the product. Users update categories in workfl...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Enable browsing of "local" XML data

In ADMIN Tool it is possible to browse XML-data from distributed Db2 via Option: DD - Distributed DB2 systems This works, because DRDA protocol does a conversion for data that is not compatible to the local CCSID. When trying this on a local Syste...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype in Cognos BI

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype************************************************************* The IEEE Standard IEEE 754-2008 (previously called IEEE 754r) for binary ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can log on Cognos Analytics based on different roles

We want to have a situation that a user when he logs on to to Cognos Analytics he gets a selection what role he want to use, if he has multiple roles (analytics user, analytics explorer, etc.)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications

Active data masking MS SQL 2016 also available on Linux hosted applications: we have the cognos application hosted on a linux oplatform. Due to this situation, we cannot use the dynamic masking as configured in MS SQL Server 2016. We do not want t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error

Cognos Report Run on a specific field from SAP BW with more than a million cells shows No data instead of generating error message. please refer case number for more details. TS001613965
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback(RIMS)

We have an official request from executive management ((John Mikkelsen) for DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback. Eric Egdorf DB2 LUW Support Verizon Business 719-535-4289 Verizon recently had an outage that they feel coul...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Make changes in the Informix backup process using onbar

Hi,i am using onbar utility to take backup of 4TB database using 12 threads and it took 8-9 hours for complete 0 level . i feel IBM needs to make changes in the Informix backup process. Whenever backup of a dbspace is in progress and if that dbspa...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration