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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.

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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Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create a Graviton ARM build for Linux for cplex

Useful for better performance on AWS compute.
12 months ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Remove Cluster Admin Role from the installation/upgrade/runtime of shared cluster components (License Manager, Certificate Manager)

In banking environments, roles are clearly segregated between teams (e.g., Infrastructure team, Application team). For day-to-day operations and application upgrades, the Application team should not require Cluster Admin privileges, as the respons...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Future consideration

Relative path for images used in dashboards and story's like in reports

After export/import from onprem to cloud all images remain intact in reports because we use relative paths. Because we could not use relative paths in story's and in dashboards, this became a problem for us now. We had to do a search on an export ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Multi Parameter conditional formatting

Adding the ability to create multi parameter "and" statements within PAW conditional formatting would enable more unified & visually appealing representation of cube views; allowing you to focus in on specific areas of the P&L without repe...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

HIPAA compliant for Watsonx.ai

We have some of the Health System customers looking for Gen AI solutions. Due to lack of HIPAA compliant, we are not able to sell and go thru the internal security approvals for x.ai and x.gov.
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add job group filter to bhist

The ability to find job groups via bhist command after the jobs have been removed from memory.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration