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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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Labelling a column changes access path

With table TB1(COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4) and index IX1(COL1, COL2, COL3), query: SELECT COL1, COL2, VARCHAR(COL3) COL3, COL4 FROM TB1 WHERE COL1 = ? AND COL2 = ? ORDER BY COL1, COL2, COL3; requires sort even though the order by is following the in...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Themes should apply to legacy tools

Themes currently do not update the banners in Query Studio. The themes should update all tools.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Support GCP for cloud bursting

Currently IBM spectrum conductor has a support cloud bursting for both AWS and Azuer . But not for GCP. In wellsfargo we have need to support GCP . As all our computation goes into GCP. Can we have this integration available with GCP also.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Future consideration

Validate SQL should simply validate whether the SQL is valid to execute

Currently, while in editing SQL in DVM Studio, you can highlight the SQL and choose "Validate SQL". This option will run the same logic used when creating a view and flag, for example, duplicate column names as an error. In this case the flagged S...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PAW - change default picture of books and folders

In PAW when creating books or folders it shows the default pictures. The possibility to add custom pictures would be much appreciated.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ldap users authentication to ODBC MongoDB drivers in DataStage

Hi, We're trying to work with DataStage and mongodb, Our need is to work with MongoDB with SSL and AD users. We understood that Those drivers supports only SSL for now. We need to enable the logon to MongoDB in DataStage with AD\Ldap users. Re...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Update the Watson Assistant UI code in Github to be mobile first/responsive.

Mocking up a quick chatbot is an extremely powerful method of showing clients (IBM clients or clients of ISVs) the benefits of Watson Assistant and how quickly it can be done. I have experienced this being extremely diluted because of the lack of ...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

On Cloud - AD Management Portal - Create New Users Info Button To Update

when creating new user in AD Management Portal, If you clicked on all the info button besides the field but nothing pops out. we are unable to tell if the button doesn't have information or fails to work because there is no behaviour. Can those in...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

SQL Instr function like %substring in IIDR MC

We use IIDR CDC for replication. There are source database columns which contains personal customer information as PAN (personal account number) and sensitive and strictly prohibited to replicate it without encoding due to information protection a...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enable API support to Restore data and object structure of an application instance from a selected snapshot

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration