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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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MER Find Message Function

In FTM, MER, Entry and Repair page, Find Message Function currently supports to Find Messages using Reference Number and Message ID. Customer wants to find messages using ISN/OSN Number. Having ability to find messages using ISN/OSN number is very...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Controller Web support for non-stable networks

In this age of the pandemic, more people are working from home, and are thus connected via networks that are not 100% stable. In Controller Web you tend to get an error message if the websock communication is broken, and then you will have to relo...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Integration of DataStage parameters and parameter sets in Pipelines

Parameters and parameter sets in Pipelines are absolutely necessary for designing dynamic data integrations with DataStage.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Provide the DBA with detailed connection information

When a user connects, the information of sysmaster:syssessions, onstat -u, onstat -g ses <session ID> provide information related to username, client hostname, etc. Currently its difficult/laborious to determine the Informix listener used by...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid lock table on full refresh process

We have been contracting the IIDR for z/OS a long time but just Q Replication was used until 2 months ago, so when we started to use the CDC for DB2 with target CDC Kafka in development environment we see that a lock table in source table is done ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Make map visualization viewable in PDF format

The interactive map visualization is a fine thing while using it interactively online. Some of our users would like to put them (of course in the starting zoom level) in pdf-reports, which is not possible. They could use legacy visualization like ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Tree Prompt Control - Highlight Selected Members

Once selected tree prompt values are highlighted and submitted, they no longer appear highlighted. This is confusing to users when they select multiple members/hierarchies and do not remember all the values selected.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Expanding and collapsing a consolidated member in the Pafe Cube Viewer / Set Editor / Exploration view should always display all the children of the member

Please review the attached word doc, I don't seem to be able to post pictures here so it is a bit tough to explain the use case and detail. Currently if I expand a consolidation after previously hiding one of its children then the child remains hi...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration