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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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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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CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
21 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Korn-Graubard CIs

The Korn-Graubard method to create confidence intervals is the recommended method for the NHANES survey. SPSS Complex Surveys does not offer that method. It would be helpful for that too be added as an option.
21 days ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enable use of sub-select in datamodule security filters

At this moment, version 12.0.3, it is not possible to use a sub-select in a security filter. We get syntax errors when we try to use a sub-select, but the syntax proves to be correct when used in native SQL. We need sub-selects to select from a se...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, ability to formulate and send emails

Add ability in 4GL to create a formatted email and send to selected recipients.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL forms, add support for a scrollable text field

In 4GL Forms, ability to define a text field or text area, where the data associated is larger than the allotted area. When the user enters data in the field/area, the data will 'scroll' either left/right or up-down, to allow the user to continue ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, Expand Character-Based forms beyond the current 24x76 size

Expand the current form-size to beyond the current 24x76 size, and allow the form to be scrollable, both left-right and up-down.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, ability to interrogate call stack, to determine where a function is being called from

Add ability in 4GL, within a given function, to look at the call stack, to determine what function called the current function.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted