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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

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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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Support of MultiByteCode for IBM i Agent

We have to store data from different IBM i Systems from several countries, with diffent local encodings (DE/AT = CCSID 273, NO = CCSID 277, BE = 500, ...) into one target schema. Therefore we descided to use for character fields the data type NCHA...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Support for starting and stopping CP4D

I know that WKC offline backup is no longer supported in ver 4.6. In my environment, the "cpd-cli backup-restore quiesce" command was outputting an error for the wkc-foundationdb pod and cpd-cli was unable to stop CP4D. I am verifying development ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt SSL Private key for Planning Analytics Workspace and store it secured

After configured SSL for PAW using this document:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSD29G_2.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_inst.2.0.0.doc/t_paw_enable_ssl.html It's working fine, however, the private key (inside pa-workspace.pem file) ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic email subject line and email body on burst reports in Event Studio

The Email task in Event Studio has the capability of making the subject and body dynamic so data items can be dragged to those sections. If a burst report is used instead to perform the emails , the capability does not exist to tailor the outgaini...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML as a datasource in 64bit

I am trying to use XML as a source for one our reports. When we moved from Cognos 10.x to 11.0.5, we get rid of all 32 bit dispatchers and made everything as 64bit only. How when I try to use the XML source, it fails since it can only work in Comp...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dashboard conditional formatting

The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration