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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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PAW Documentation

We need to justify PAW's infrastructure and security requirement due to its super complicated infrastructure requirement, most IT department from mega-size companies to SME cannot understand how PAW actually work and approve the PAW's infrastructu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to download Uploaded files

Currently there is option to refresh uploaded file. However we cant download file which is uploaded already. The best way it can be fixed is to have download option against uploaded file like one available for themes now.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add option to Cognos Hyperlink to open in new Tab/Window

Currently, in Interactive mode, when report authors add a dataitem to leverage Hyperlink, there are no controls to allow authors to set the links to open in new Tab or new window. We have to train our users to hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys whic...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Functionality already exists

Restrict Access to columns/attributes based on role

Allow admins to determine which attributes a user has access to view in queries and within a case. This could be handled at the role level. Not all users need access to the same type of data; limiting which users can see each attribute helps infor...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Planned for future release

Show different report icon change if there is saved output available

One thing which made the old Cognos 10 interface better than the new Cognos Analytics 11 was the ability to look at the state of a report and tell, at a glance, if there was any saved output available. The new CA 11 interface does not provide this...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted