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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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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.

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Add support for INFORMATION_SCHEMA views

In our company we are using PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and DB2. All of database except Db2 support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There is pretty easy to write at least basic cross-database SQL to get info from database catalog tables except in Db2....
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Open cognos analytics notifications for external notifications via API

We would like to post notification from extranal applications to our cognos interface via APIs. We have integrated solution for Cognos and planning analytics with one common portal build in CA11 and we would like to push some PA notifications to t...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extending mapper support to GPA messages

FTM Base doesn't support GPA messages. When we receive GPA MT081 messages they have status Transmission Mapping failed.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

hiding the left bar in PAW for end users

We want to hide by default left bar for end users in paw application. Please refer the screenshot for better understanding
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Provide SDK interface to automate theme and extension maintenance. (CA11)

Provide a programmable interface (SDK) to partially deploy themes and extensions to environments as well as create the needed settings to roles and rights.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Delete/Define operation on Vsam file needs to be logged

This RFE is for the VSAM development team.if a vsam file is enabled for replication using LOGREPLICATE, it can be enabled for replication using Classic CDC. if such file is DELETE/DEFINE which is very common for end of day processing, the replicat...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 3 Not under consideration