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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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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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Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Quick Reference Customization

Being able to use the Quick Reference a adjust the contents and links underneath after designing my own extension and theme.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Ability to create REST endpoints via UI

Today there is no ability to create WQ RESTful endpoints via the UI. RESTful endpoints which expose virtual data need to be created via the Db2 RESTful API. A large US Federal customer requests a UI screen to enable user-friendly creation of Db2 R...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

duplicate existing role or user group

To be able to clone users, user groups, and roles to make user set up and assignment a lot easier. We're currently setting up several sub-categories as data domains. Each one will have a different user group as approvers for workflow purposes. To ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 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

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

REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

multilanguage translations to datamodules, same as in frameworkmanager

As an international company we need translations of attributes within datamodules to different language. This affects the attribute names and also the delivered content / flied in the database to for example multiple translations. For a example a...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release