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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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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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over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

LSF Resource Connecter should allow start/stop of *existing* AWS VMs.

We have procedural limitations with creating new instances in AWS on-demand by LSF Resource Connector (RC) for security reasons. Our preference would be to create instances ahead of time and let LSF RC start and stop the instances based on demand....
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Functionality already exists

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Restrict Exploration from specific Packages

Provide the ability to restrict access to specific packages with the Exploration tool, as allowed with with tools, such as Report Studio. Not all packages may be designed for optimal use with Exploration. The users may need access to one package f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

DB2 REST service should support ‘Using ARRAY data type as INPUT parm in a Native SQLPL’

We have a SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT/OUTPUT parm. REST Service allows to ‘create’ as service calling ‘SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT parm’ but throws error while calling the same service. Method :POST Scheme://HOST[“.” PORT][PATH][“?”QUE...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Graphical difference between 2 versions of the same job

currently we are piloting IIS manager to create packages for deploying datastage code into lhigher environments. However there is no way of identifying quickly what the changes were between an old package and a new one.
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Creating MX message via sample queues/flows

Dear support team, We already have opened a requirement (ID145570) but they suggested to address here a new idea with the following text which we already used in the requirement: Description: This requirement is NOT related to IIB, but to FTM SWI...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

ENABLE ABILITY TO COMPILE DATASTAGE JOBS ON THE SERVER SIDE IN NON-WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

Right Now there is no ABILITY TO COMPILE DATASTAGE JOBS ON THE SERVER SIDE(NON-WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT), we would need to this functionality enabled in Datastage.Raise the CASE TS000075374 for the same.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists