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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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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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Customize the shape of plots On Maps

Hey Team! There is requirement for cognos maps on dashboard to customize shape of plots/symbols. The issue is that when latitude and longitude are fed onto the fields on the dashboard, cognos maps automatically plots the default symbol, a circle, ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC backup and recovery documentation

Couldn't find much information regarding the cdc backup and recovery procedures, especially CDC for BQ.
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Action V (Display SQL text) should show SQL in ISPF VIEW session

Presenting the SQL text directly in ISPF VIEW/EDIT will give the user direct access to all the brilliant commands in ISPF VIEW/EDIT including EDIT macros and CUT/PASTE. This will be much faster than first EXPORT and then enter ISPF VIEW/EDIT on th...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Multiple IMS connection support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can connect to single IMSsubsystem only. Therefore, when multiple IMS subsystems exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each IMS subsystem to access data in all IMS subsystems.If DVM can support conne...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Multiple TCPIP stack support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can support single TCPIP stackonly. Therefore, when multiple TCPIP stacks exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each TCPIP stack to use all network connections.If DVM can support multiple TCPIP stack...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Resolve issues relating to quantum entangled action buttons in PAfE

Currently if I have an Excel sheet with action buttons on and I duplicate the sheet into the same workbook then to all visible cues we end up with two action buttons (AB). I can see two action buttons, one on each sheet and I can see them listed s...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Greater distinction between the Input / "All Leaf" level in the PAfE cube viewer / PAW exploration.

Discounting ruled cells, the only distinction between an "All Leaf" cell and a consolidation is that the cell is normal or bold text formatted.This distinction is too subtle. You can only tell the difference between a bold and normal formatted tex...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Documentation update regarding DataStage Roles and Capabilities

Every DataStage team in the world needs a quick reference to the DataStage roles/permissions/capabilities which is easily understandable and comprehensive at a glance. There isn't one in the manual, it's just a bunch of overly-complicated text. So...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Include Packages For NSPs & Advanced Triggers In Rebind Phase-In Eligibility

Rebind Phase-In is a great enhancement. It would be even better if NSPs & Advanced Triggers were eligible for Rebind Phase-In. NSPs represent a large percentage of the packages we are currently executing -- in our biggest Production DSG NSPs c...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration