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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Increase OPTIM Compare Re...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Need new NLS ISO 639-2 alpha-2 in DataStage 11.5

SAP Tech Upgrade to release 750 version introduces new characters in T002T ABAP table in SPRSL field for Hindi, Kazakh, Vietnamese value in column SPTXT, which DataStage is not able to translate and extracting junk characters.SAP NOTE: 319916 was ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Load request in Optim is ...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Infosphere Datastage SyncProject Utility

While using the SyncProject to fix the corrupted project, project has been moved from original location to the default project location (/opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Projects/). Ideally utility should recover the project at the same location ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow to reduce amount of logs

We are using WLM with Datastage and noticed that DSWLM creates huge amout of logdata in "...DSWLM/logs". I think it would be a good idea, to configure DSNWLM to supress Messages flagged as INFO and log only Errors.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

OPTIM TDM and DB2 Puresca...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Remove reserved character from password field

Currently when setting up ERO a username and password is required. Unfortunately the * character has been reserved and can not be used in the password.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Import metadata from MySQL tables from any schema in a database using IS Connector Import Wizard

Our organization uses MySQL as a staging DBMS to store data tables that will be used in ETL jobs to feed the analysis environment.These tables are defined by procedures external to IS, usually with the IDR replication product.Development teams nee...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Controller web intercompany reconcile

At present all liability balances are shown as positive in the intercompany. This means matched intercompany balances show as unmatched. This is a key part of the appeal of the Controller web which would be extremely useful for our subsidiaries to...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

AIX 7.2 Support for DataStage, InfoSphere Information Server

Support for AIX version 7.2 is needed for DataStage. Currently only the older AIX v7.1 is supported.Due to security guidelines and official regulations, the operating system needs to be updated to the current level. Support for all currently used ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists