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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:


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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,

  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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Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Renaming of file attachments in Event Studio email task

We are using even studio to generate output from multiple reports and send them in single mail to with all attachments. When we attach report outputs, it is autometically adding locale information as suffix which users don't want to see. Also, we ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a threshold for the number of incidents caused by a single holder for message DSNT376I.

Availability and stable systems are very important to us (as they are for most users of DB2 for Z). Recently, I implemented a process that automatically terminated any process that shows up as the holder for a specific number (threshold) of DSNT37...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatically add users to PAW

Hi Team, On Planning Analytics we have to first add the users to Planning Analytics Workspace and then add the users to TM1 instance. Instead of adding the users at both the place, if we add the user in the TM1 instance can the user be automatica...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Copy other users my folder content to team content

As an administrator , while moving code from one environment to other or upgrading, we need to copy the user's my folder content into public folders/team content and move it back to my folders after the code deployment. I dont see this option in 1...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pin up Filter in Query Table

Today we are having round about 300 Querys defined. Each user has some private working querys (by definition) starting with the name prefix "BT_". It would be great to Pin up a filter. (in comparison to the old UI the querys were splitted up on x-...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function for Informix database

Informix does not have a UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function. Requirement :---------------------------------1) Cast function to convert from a particular datetime to UTC datetime based on the current timezone2) Cast function to convert from sysd...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

DB2 PureScale to Support Oversubscription of Storage in IBM Flash System

The IBM Flash System (FS7300) does such as good job at real time data compression that I am achieving almost 5:1 compression on one of my environments (31TB Written = 6.4TB Physically consumed). So, while it has 80% of the storage allocated to IBM...
8 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration