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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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Ability to review data on remote instances without having to move API to remote instance.

Today, when researching a data discrepancy between two instances in Advance Defense the API or BDI export process must be manually moved. When this occurs other access or processes can be negatively impacted. In order to comply with client SLAs, t...
3 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

File Manager Open/Preview Files

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services coming in September, we will need to transition to the File Manager for view all shared folder files. Currently, there is no method of opening and previewing files without them being downloaded. T...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Job Details view window limitations

There are actually two problems regarding this Job Details view: 1. There is no easy navigation from a given design view of a flow or pipeline to the corresponding Job Details window 2. There is no way back from this Job Details window back into t...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

DB2 Support for Business Partners

Suggest allowing access to DB2 Support for IBM Business Partners companies who do not have a valid support contract, nor may have a valid DB2 licence at all, but despite all that devote their (working) lives preaching, selling and supporting DB2 f...
25 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
2 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Submitted

Change of skipping rows rule, when calculation is in use.

Right now skipping rows doesn't work, when in use are f.e. two elements, where one of them is equal zero and a value of a second one is different than zero. When calculation in Workspace is executed and value is equal to zero, also when we see an ...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Reading xml(amd LOB/CLOB) fields from DB2 transaction logs rather than separate select statements

We noticed on production that if there are xml fields in the table , then CDC don't read from transaction logs , but rather directly sends 'select' queries. Same behavior has been verified by https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-are-lobs-clobs-an...
8 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted