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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,

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  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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Informix pure .NET Core driver

We need pure .NET Core driver. Currently we have to compile our programs with flags for 32 or 64 bit code which is against the idea of .NET Core portability. Also it leads to errors when we sent assemblies to incorrect environment. Driver on OpenS...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 6 Delivered

Enhance EXPLAIN in order to no longer need Informix server access

Currently Informix EXPLAIN generates a server side file. For developers that are working from remote machines, it becomes problematic to retrieve the explain files when they have restricted access to the Informix Server machine. There are 2 undocu...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

Improve DB2 DBD pool processing to prevent full and provide better diagnostics

Improve DB2 DBD pool processing by1) providing a dynamic increase process to help prevent full conditions (and therefore thread failures)2) providing better diagnostics to identify the DBD's consuming the most non-stealable space. Optionally - ide...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow Microsoft SQL Server connection to authenticate to Active Directory

The CP4D default Microsoft SQL Server connector does not handle authentication with Active Directory. Instead customers need to create a service account ON the SQL Server itself. This is probably due to lack of properly passing authentication toke...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Shortcut to Add indent within a line

In Architect/Perspectives when authoring a rule or process we could perform an indent, not just on the whole line but within a line using ctrl+i Such as the below... Between nContainSubmission = 1; and EndIF; it is filled by not spaces but a tab. ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Attachment to a journal in Controller Web

When posting a journal in Controller Web it would be very helpful if you could attach a file, not only write a text.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Allow generated utilities to operate on a listdef rather than individual steps

If we generate a utility such as copy against a list of objects then the resulting job, or jobs, are generated with one step per object. This makes the JCL unwieldly and serialises the run.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

DB2 Distributed Thread - hidden high CPU consumption

DB2 Distributed thread with long-running OPEN CURSOR is difficult to detect in DB2 monitors. The CPU consumption is not returned until the OPEN CURSOR completes . If the thread is cancelled while still in the OPEN CURSOR, the Accounting CPU consum...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Workflows: Include support for mathematical operations/transformations in Expressions

It'd be a great addition if we can evaluate mathematical expressions as conditions or operations in Native Workflow. Sample use cases: 1. Operate on a field, making it 1.2 times its original value. 2. Operate on another field, e.g., adjust the val...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

New UI lack Standard UI Search Capabilities

In GRC new UI search capabilities are very limited than as compare to standard UI.- Global Search Option is not available- Filter List search criteria is not available In new UI Search function is not very end user friendly and easy to use.Wh...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered