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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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Performing an update of InfoSphere Information Server fix corrupts Datastage projects

"At Banco Popular client, the fix pack for IBM InfoSphere Information Server Version 11.7 had to be installed. However, during the installation, a backup was created, which takes the client 3 days. During the case response period, it was found tha...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need to have YouTube tutorial videos for MDM installation or Upgradation

IBM should create YouTube tutorial video for MDM installation or upgradation like WAS team has created. Following instruction given by IBM KC is bit complex, however, when you have videos showing step by step that you need to follow is much easier...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS in future releases of DB2.

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS. This would be beneficial to us and our CPU consumption and costs. Has a request been made already to allow ZIIP processing for DB2 via Batch? H...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column Chart: independent column padding setting when the color field is used

When using the column chart with members in the color field, it would be helpful to add the option to use an independent setting for column padding (as now) and column color padding (this proposition). That would allow to set the padding of color ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights on Move Option

We have faced performance issues with big customers who used to use Move Options (Folder View) for business change purposes. OpenPages has a way to limit this right but is Binary (everything or nothing), anyway customer has multiple scenarios for ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Not under consideration

Add support for treeprompt into dashboards (for dimensional data sources)

Hello, we are missing the support for tree prompt selection for elements in dashboard when using dimensional data. Today when we drag hierarchy we see list of root elements which is not expected behavior. Users need to see and browse the dimension...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Rest API Native View Skip Consolidations

The native view entity object of the rest api does not include the skip consolidations property. This complicates things when copying native views with the rest api. I realize architect/perspectives will be deprecated at some point and native view...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration