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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

gnerate alert when report output is not created on file system

When a scheduled job or interactive report is ran and the output is set to file system if the output is not generated or written to the file system there is no notification or alert of an issue.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Space Optimization tasks monitoring

When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

PA Workspace: Resize and position items using percents or pixels

Currently the size and position of objects in Workspace can only be done by drag and drop, which is not very accurate. This makes it hard to create a uniform appearance. Therefore it would be better to be able to Resize and position items using pi...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

PAW refresh to update Webpage Widget with latest html content

Using the Webpage Widget to display html content. This is convenient to generate custom html to display within PAW. But the refresh button within PAW does not update the webpage widget with the latest html content. (Have to force clear browser ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to set PAW sheet or widget to auto-refresh data periodically

We have received interest in "real-time" capability. While we are able to schedule data processes in the background to simulate real-time data updates, the front-end is a limiting factor in displaying this data. It would be useful to be able to se...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration