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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.

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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extend MERGE syntax to allow Common Table Expressions (CTE)

The MERGE SQL statement is a new favourite SQL statement. But I also like to use Common Table Expressions (CTE). CTE can be used in other type of SQL (mostly SELECT) but CTE is not allowed with MERGE What is my idea? Allow MERGE to use CTE. I...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Embed Data In Reports Without Special Coding (i.e. Active Reports)

We would like the ability to embed data In reports WITHOUT having to do special/different/extra development. Right now, in order to do this, you need to use a completely different design paradigm (active reports). Then, if you change your mind and...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Highlight Same or Different buttons in Inspector do not work.

Over the last 10 years the Inspector Highlight Same and Highlight Different buttons have never worked properly. Highlight Different will highlight fields that are different due to casing or special character differences, but we know that the algor...
almost 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

REOPT(ALWAYS) on statement level additional to package level

MR0123086821 GGDB208004 Make it possible to state REOPT(ALWAYS) additionally to the bind option as a clause at the statement level.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable to modify the timeout of remote desktop

TimeLine after an idle session for admin to change.
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Utility for Masking of data for sharing of the TM1 instance

As of now data masking is not available for data in transit or at rest. Utility for Masking of data for sharing of the TM1 instance
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAx - It should work on MacOS as well

Given the current scenario PAx should be compatible be IOS as well as more and more people are using Maacbook now a days.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration