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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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Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to export message list of a FTM MER Queue to a spreadsheet.

Our users requested to have the ability to export the message list of a FTM MER queue into a excel spreadsheet. This would especially be useful when the message list may span multiple pages.
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Support hierarchies in drill through functionality

The TI Function ReturnViewHandle utilized in that feature does not support MDX views which were the only way to include alternate hierarchies. So it is not possible to create drill through processes which respect alternate hierarchies. We need thi...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

PAx: Calculations created in an Exploration View or directly in MDX must be visible in Quick Report mode

Based on PMR 85782,660,706 In PAx, subtotals in rows and/or columns are needed in some cases. This subtotals can be specific for one given business process and change from one year to an other year. These substotals cannot be part of the dimension...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Support Oracle 21c as source, including support for TDE

We are an OEM partner of IBM, for IIDR. A prospect is interested in the combined solution. They currently run with Oracle 19c, and have plans to upgrade their Oracle to 21c by June 2022. They run with TDE on their Oracle.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add ability to disable temp table auditing

Informix row level auditing masks (INRW, DLRW and UPRW) can be used to audit DML operations on application tables. During batch jobs (that use temporary tables extensively) it was noted that Informix is auditing temporary tables unnecessary causin...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration