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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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UNLOAD Utility should have the ability to generate IGNOREFIELDS YES

This is a manual effort using INSYNCH to add this to the load cards
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unload should generate the correct load cards to load Temporal Base Tables

Currently the unload utility generates load cards with Temporal Column Names having different names as the DB2 catalog. This causes the load to generate new values for ROW BEGIN, ROW END, TRANSACTION START ID which is incorrect. Having INSYNCH sof...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Template Designer for Dashboards

The built in tabbed/info-graphic templates really help users to quickly drag and drop visualisations into a dashboard without having to worry about moving/resizing objects, but users are restricted to the few that are available. Wouldn't it be gre...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel: Delete/Rename option without open Excel workbook

It would be great to have a delete/rename view option even if you do not have aan Excel workbook open.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Copy Member from Cube View

Users often want to copy the members from a cube view to reuse elsewhere. If you select members and right-click then copy, you copy then data in the view. This is particularly important with larger dimensions and zero suppressed views as users hav...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

produce warning message when local bufferpool reaches DM Threshold

Produce an alert message when local bufferpool reaches DM threshold.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration