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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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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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Encryption for Informix backup.

Informix 12.10 fc8 has file level encryption available in the database. However, from my understanding if you do a backup, this file in not encrypted. Can we have a method to perform a databack that keeps the encryption in the backup data.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

HostFactory returns hosts with pre-start service

Currently, hostfactory does not calculate with pre-started service. but can not return the hosts with pre-started services. This causes the huge waste. Our user case for an app 4 scheduled hosts up 24x7 with 40 pre-start services to meet our short...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Options missing for Query, Report Page and Prompt Page

Run Page , and Manage Report/Prompt Pages and Manage Classes for Report Pages and Prompt Pages are not available if you right click on the Individual Report Pages and Prompt Pages.And If you right click on the individual Query, we are unable to se...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Unable to change server in exploration reports in PAX

Currently in exploration mode it is not possible to edit the field which contains the server name which the report refers to. You simply cannot change the value. In the quick report properties e.g. this is possible. See attached screenshots. Can y...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Quick command to "Blue box" in PAW

Our users feels that there sometimes is difficult to go through the blue box to be able to export to excel. It is especially difficult if it is a large view and a small screen, when they feel that they can't always get hold of the blue box. They w...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Option to print only changed Columns

We have tables with a large number columns. In the detailed report there are always the complete row images (all columns) printed which makes it hard to see the differences. There are signs in the column name header (#, !, -) that indicate a chang...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Bulk select option for workflow actions

I like the feature for bulk updates of obligation evaluation fields…eg select the same user for assessing multiple obligation evaluations. We request the same bulk processing feature for workflow items. For example, in our workflow we have the fol...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Restrict access on shared folder in Workspace

Want to restrict the access for Analyst role to only save Books in personal folder.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

connection to MariaDB

I have the need to connect to MariaDB, so I configured ODBC.ini, but when I searched and tried several libs, the connection was not possible. When opening a call to IBM support, I was told that there is really no official support for MariaDB and I...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered