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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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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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Enhancement to be able to import common Cobol Copy book format

System: BigIntegrateActor: User needing enhancement to existing feature Nationwide is moving processing from mainframe to hdfs for analytics. There are hundreds of COBOL copybooks describing the metadata of the sources and targets, and there is mu...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

meaningful import log description for filtered items

provide meaningful import log description for lines that passed through the filters
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility should allow huge loads to run with out blocking transactional log files

Please let me explain more about how i look at LOAD utility.LOAD utility is a way to write data into database quickly by ignoring the traditional route into the system, like query processing insert/update/delete.LOAD utility will by pass many perf...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Increased number of clickable regions on visualisations

In the stacked column visualisation, in PROPERTIES >INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOUR>CLICKABLE REGIONS there are only 2 options. Visualisation as a whole and Visualisation Intersections. For our dashboard we need the X AXIS lables also in the clickable...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Case TS001148199- Enhancement to treat a MUN memeber appearing at different levels as same member.

CASE # TS001148199 - Parent level value does not match with summarized value of children in crosstab
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Offline context sensitive help stored locally

This feature will be useful for users who work offline or in the environment isolated from the Internet. These users cannot use a context help for Modeler.
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Not under consideration

AMOS for Mac

Hello, I hope you will develop AMOS for Mac version and consider some people who use Mac.
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration