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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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Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow dimension attribute to appear as a hover-over message or popup text for an element

Allow selecting dimension's (especially measure dimension) text attribute or an alias to appear as a hover-over message or a pop-up text if populated. The element which has a popup text can have a bulb-like icon next to it, to indicate that elemen...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Load file which can be used in LOAD RESUME YES for REDO records

When generating REDO SQLs for a transaction recovery scenario an option to generate a load file (to be used in LOAD RESUME YES) containing the REDO record will be nice to have where there were a lot of records to apply say millions and the users u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to create customizable dashboards in 10.0.5.3 API connect analytics

Currently we do not have the ability to create customizable dashboards in 10.0.5.3 as we did previously in 10.0.1.7 version of PAI connect analytics. This impacts our business as we had previously created our customizable dashboards to have a more...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Prompt Controls

Provide enhanced prompt controls out of box like the one below. 1. Multiselect Dropdown List With Checkboxes 2. SingleSelect Dropdown List with RadioButtons. 3. Advanced and Search and Select prompt with ability to only display seach input box wit...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to disable temp table auditing

Informix row level auditing masks (INRW, DLRW and UPRW) can be used to audit DML operations on application tables. During batch jobs (that use temporary tables extensively) it was noted that Informix is auditing temporary tables unnecessary causin...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add more criteria for MONITOR CONNECTIONS in DB2 PROFILE tables

Currently the DB2 PROFILE table only allows LOCATION as the selection criteria with the MONITOR CONNECTIONS keyword. We would like to restrict the number of connections a particular application can open, but the connections can: 1) come via a shar...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Export to CSV by Validation Tab Results not End User Friendly

Rich Search Result Report Script does not have an api to get the selected products , the function arguments only have an api which returns all the items which are in multi edit. We want the api which gives the list of selected items as , similar t...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 3 Future consideration

Object Manager - Workflow Migration automation

Needing to update the XML files directly for environment values and variables when migrating from one environment to another can result in errors. Either due to missed updates, mistyping of values, or invalid changes being made and missed.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mask URL field

At the moment, Rich Text Fields does not support embedding URL linking, so the only way to link to an external site is via the URL field. When this field is used, the full URL is exposed as a link to the front end user. Customer wishes to be able ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Not under consideration