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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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Upload Historical rates

Our client would like to translate cash flow line items at a more accurate rate than just using the M, D or B rate. In order to provide them the functionality we would make use of the historical rates table. Their concern is that head office shoul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

dsjob command provides -logpurging option.

When the customer runs many instances of a multi-instance job at the same time, the auto purging process sometimes removes wrong entries in the RT_STATUS file unexpectedly. This behavior causes a serious result, because dsjob with -jobinfo can not...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS V11 Unneccessary Index Open & Lock

For index scans, DB2 is unnecessarily opening and locking an index partition.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp on sysmater to know when an open transaction has been created

Add a creation timestamp for each transaction so users can monitor how long a transaction has been open. Maybe like in others sysmaster tables, a column on systrans will be great.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Make lsadmin/badmin accept "yes" and "no" as answers

Questions asked by `lsadmin` and `badmin` (and maybe other administrative LSF commands) only accept "y" and "n" as answers. "yes" and "no" are not accepted but should be
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Additional capabilities for tracking and managing distributed applications.

Be able to Tag IP addresses and other identifiers to group them together and provide the capability to watch or capture activity /errors/issues by the tag.Also, add currentPackageset (Collection) as an identifier for SQL captures. Tagging would al...
over 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow option to save a view as an MDX view or standard view when using cube viewer in PAX or PAW

With both PAX and PAW we are able to create a new cube view by opening the cube viewer and clicking the save icon. Clicking this save icon will publish the view for later reuse. When views are created by this cube viewer within PAW/PAX the views a...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include "Process Progress Report" in PAW

The process progress report in Architect doesn't feature in PAW. Its helpful for when a process is taking a long time and you want to know what tab its stuck on. Something to give visibility on how a process is progressing is helpful for modeling ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mandatory fields shouldn't be mandatory if workflow next step is ‘Failure'

Issue: Mandatory fields shouldn't be mandatory if workflow next step is ‘Failure'. Reason: Mandatory to fill in attributes that are ignored and therefore not saved
over 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration