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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.

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Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for CLOB data typs

Support for CLOB data type, for the substring and position functions. Currently you can only use the functions to string fields, and converting a CLOB to a string will not work if the CLOB is over 4000 characters. The Vendor specific functions, su...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[TFUI] Configure default sorting in Grid Views

Currently in a Grid View, the object instances are sorted by default by the Name field in an ascending order. In an embedded Grid, the default sorting can be configured to meet ones needs. This is not possible in a Grid View. Users have to apply t...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

UUID support

Provide support for UUIDs. Eg - function to create , format and default value for column.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request a 'friendly' error message when trying to overwrite a published report with the Save function.

What options are available to offer users a friendly error message when they attempt to overwrite a report with the "Save" function. As an example, when a user attempts to "Save As" to a restricted folder, the get a clean/understandable error mess...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Superior approximation algorithm for finding Maximum (or large) Cliques in very large graphs. (Multi-Partite Graphs can be found)

Our maximum clique finding algorithm (that is polynomial in its run time) and which seems (from DIMACS benchmark tests) to run better than other methods that are presently available would be beneficial to IBM because it would allow you to solve co...
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Fastmap (#7) - Import of Business Entity Selector type fields

Import of Business Entity Selector type fields must be possible specifying only the Business Entity Code, and not the complete path (folder).
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Future consideration