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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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Set filter - case insensitive

When working with filter set and choosing a filter with caption or attribute. The filter is case sensitive. I would like it to be case insensitive
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML report formatting in Google Mail

Our company has changed to use Google Mail and HTML reports generated by Cognos with the content embedded in the body lose their formatting as Google Mail has this "feature" that they strip out styling that doesn't follow their rules. It would be ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add permission for Administrator Client access

Need the ability to control the access to the administartor client for all users.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove numeric IP addresses in IIDR IMS configuration

Numeric IP addresses are used in CECE1OPT and the NOTIFICATIONURL for the log notification service.We would like to use DNS names instead.
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Populate Data Tray with FM Package Data

Expand Data Tray Scope to include data from FM packages. Right now it is difficult to debug data/model issues in Dashboarding.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

spark sql support plan

Do we have support plan for Apache spark sql ?
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Do not process columns 73-80 on SYSIN DD as a command of CACCFGUT utility

We use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS V11.3. CACCFGUT(configuration migration and maintenance) utility uses columns 73-80 on SYSIN DD as a command value. ISPF automatically set numbers in columns 73-80. If we do not delete those numbers o...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration