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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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FTM for Swift- message printing layout

Adjustment of the message printout to be more similar to Merva's printout, the data is quite unreadable because the field descriptions and the field content are not separated, the problems are bigger with large messages that have a lot of fields. ...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -413: Add an ID of Column/Host-Variable

Currently SQLCODE -413 looks like this: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -413, ERROR: OVERFLOW OR UNDERFLOW OCCURRED DURING NUMERIC DATA TYPE CONVERSIONDSNT418I SQLSTATE = 22003 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP = DSNTZEXE SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR This...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Imroved administration of linked structures

The administration of linked structures (Company - Dim1/2/3/4) with a great number of companies, is very time consuming. With many companies, having more or less the same access to dimensions but with minor differences, you need to set up and main...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Adding a View in PAW will add the 'Default' view if available

When right clicking on a view in PAW PAW should check for and open the default view (Public / Private) if available. this is the same behavior as architect
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Unload LOCK YES Drain Writers instead of executing LOCK TABLE

When executing HPU in Native MODE with parameters ULLOCK = YES, ULLOCKTE = LOCK and ULLOCKMO = NATIVE_ONLY HPU executes a EXEC SQL LOCK TABLE. Sometimes table being locked is in a TS whose a IX TS lock was left in DB2 due to this table be used in ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Removal of an unnecesary system crash due to must-complete or latch holding agent - RC 00F3040A

Today, there is an intentional system crash designed and exploited with an abend code 00F3040A when an agent abending in system is in so called must-complete state or is holding a latch. We have been running a case TS006198341 where our system cra...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration