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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide CDC integration with DVM

Provide the ability for DVM to interface with CDC for both VSAM and IMS data sources. Support a mechanism to keep DVM extracted data up to date to meet SLAs related to data currency.
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add attachment file name to the schedule report "View run history" status screen

Please add the attachment report name to the schedule report's "View run history" screen so that Admins can see what report was attached to the scheduled report and was distributed.Also, if the attachment is different then the actual report name, ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Moving extra area for IRLM latch information provided by PI93817 from QTXA to a new section.

This is related to PMR 73570,611,760. Applying a PTF for PI93817, new 124 bytes fields for IRLM latch contention counters are added to IFCID QTXA section, which is shared between statistics and accounting trace. However, those new fields are used ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

}ROLLUP_ELEM functionality

Users have the ability in Perspectives to create adhoc }ROLLUP_ELEM_ consolidations to aggregate elements is private views. This functionality does not work in PAfE.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Global Pins for Dashboard

Create Global Pins in Dashboardingso they can be shareed with other users. The business purpose would be for our developers to create a dashboard object library that users can just drag in and combine into their dashboards
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration