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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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Create SQL reference manual for InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS

My customer is developing an application that issues SQL to DB2 using the CLASSIC FEDERATION.The available SQL was answered with DB2 V4 equivalent on the PMR, but LOCK was not available.Application development is delayed and the customer is strong...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Security/Capability on global parameters

We would like to use global parameters as a place where users and advanced users can define and reuse parameters (especially default parameters).To be able to use global parameters in this way we need to be able to separate security/capabilities o...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Task-based Workflow in PAW

Task-based workflow in PAW: - Administrations can create tasks (such as enter product volumes, set pricing, enter new headcount, plan expenses, etc).- Tasks would have a description and instructions- Tasks can be assigned to users and associated w...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Removal of 'Unknown' User folders

As an administrator, I have visibility into 'Users' folders in PAW. On all of my instances, there are many 'Unknown' folders under Users. We need a way to remove this clutter from relevant and useful information.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need the ability to "Import" or "Load" data from CSV file

We have the ability to Export to CSV file, we need the ability to Import from CSV. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Business Terms : UI Change Request : Relocate the Data Steward attribute to the main screen so that it is displayed along with the other attributes

Relocate the Data Steward attribute to the main screen so that it is displayed along with the other attributes
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration