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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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LOAD should allow collecting STATISTICS without USE PROFILE option for row based tables

LOAD collects "default" statistics like auto-runstats when loading into BLU (RUNSTATS ... WITH DISTRIBUTION AND SAMPLED DETAILED INDEXES ALL).I assume this got not changed because the fear of incompatibility with existing behavior. Therefore pleas...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE is an easy way to save lock list and lock acquire for tables that just get accessed by a single application at a given time.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Openpages CJAP passing email to Cognos

OpenPages use the CJAP for login and it does not pass email address to Cognos. This is resulting User need to manually enter email address when scheduling Cognos report for email delivery.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

custom Story templates

Currently, we must copy/paste a pre-built Story each time a user wants to develop a Story using the company's standard presentation template. A customized, globally accessible Story template as well as custom slide templates (e.g.: title page, con...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable an end user to transfer a file via web Client with TI execution on IBM Cloud

Enable an end user to transfer a file via web Client with TI execution on IBM Cloud
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

online alter fragment

make it possible to run alter fragment online
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration