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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Event Manager and Entity Manager need to work in coordination to prevent update and merge timing issue.

Based on our findings and the confirmation from IBM support we have submitted this RFE to address this problem. We found an issue in MDM event notification which can impact downstream systems that rely on MDM EID. This is a timing issue and only o...
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022

As MS SQL Server 2022 is expected to be released in mid 2022, when will IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022 ?
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

zDb2 should provide option to not write RACF statistics without coding any Db2 Signon Exit (DSN3SSGN)

Banca d'Italia, for many good reasons, wants to get rid of any user written assembler exit, including DSN3SSGN .They use DNS3SSGN only with the specific purpose to not collect RACF statistics and so they have modified it by adding STAT=NO on each ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN ACCELERATOR RESTORE Command availability

We are in the process of migrating home grown Accel administation processes for adding, loading, enabling, disabling, archiving and restoring tables to use the Admin Tool ADMIN ACCELERATOR command interface. The provided functionality looks great....
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Need Cognos BI to have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent

Cognos should have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent. For example, the embed reports were changed, the agent execution time was changed, the email recipients were changed, etc, there should have a record generated so Cogno...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cloud environment Maintenance - Optional Waves

In the Monthly Cloud Environment maintenance that occurs on the 3rd Saturday of each month, have an option to choose a different time frame. ie. from 1AM to 9AM UTC or from 2PM to 10PM
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bring back Host Rank to enable filtering out unreliable sources

Host Rank allowed for filtering out sources with a low score. Without it, offensive, inappropriate, and fake sources creep into the News query results. The current mechanism of submitting individual source complaints is ineffective.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration