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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Orienting column text Vertically in a list

HR Users would like to present reports to upper mgmt with this formatting.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

KnowledgeCentrer on Docker

Sometimes the knowledgeCenter is not reacheable or it is not working for different reasons, and the access for the documentation becomes an issue. For this reason, I suggest to have the KnowledgeCenter downloadable as a Docker image, as it was pos...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Support NTLM authentication for API calls using Hierarchial stage or Web services Client within DataStage

As part of our data acquisition we are acquiring data from MDS Microsoft API and it needs NTLM authentication to connect to the API before the data can be acquired using datastage
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

REORG DISCARD support writing a spanned record

Running a REORG DISCARD on a user tablespace with LONG VARCHAR message :- DSNU297I - COMPOSITE RECORD SIZE TOO LARGE FOR.......... is received.BTW, UNLOAD without 'NOPAD', the problem occur; whetheras, with 'NOPAD', the problem doesn't occur.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add flag to instances to indicate if have customizations

When building a UI for Phone integration -- the reasons to select a particular STT or Voice instance over another are the plan and whether it has customizations available. At this time to, when a user selects a speech instance, you must do several...
about 4 years ago in Speech Services 0 Planned for future release

cancel batch

cancel batch functionality that would clear any transactions that were not processed so those could be resubmitted in a new batch.
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Planned for future release

Allow Metadata Search Results from a Cognos Package to be added to a PAX Exploration

PAX allows one to search for specific members. if the data source is TM1/PA, then the user can drag the results into an Exploration. If the data source is a Cognos Analytics package, the user cannot drag the results into their crosstab. This en...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Broadcast message was failing for event ID

provide ability to change TCH participants status from UI in a situation when Broadcast messages failed to update DP status of a participant in any event failure
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Add SORTNPSI_USED To SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

Use case/business impact. All indexes reorged on Sunday. Run daily process to identify any index needing reorged by interrogating RTS. Since NPSI organization can rapidly deteriorate, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to secure specific folders with password or to hide them in Cognos Analytics

Ability to secure specific folder with password or to hide it in Cognos Analytics.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration