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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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Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS in future releases of DB2.

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS. This would be beneficial to us and our CPU consumption and costs. Has a request been made already to allow ZIIP processing for DB2 via Batch? H...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column Chart: independent column padding setting when the color field is used

When using the column chart with members in the color field, it would be helpful to add the option to use an independent setting for column padding (as now) and column color padding (this proposition). That would allow to set the padding of color ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill through doesn't work on saved report version

Save copy of a report does not allow drill through
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Auto size folder panel based on folder path and object name

Make the folder/object panel auto size based on the folder path and object name. Currently the panel can be manually sized but this is something that most applications offer automatically and is expected by our users.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Embed CA 11 in SharePoint 2013, 2016

CA 11 supports the "classic" report viewer being embedded in web applications including SharePoint 2013/2016 via URLs, but embedding the new CA 11 portal, interactive reports and dashboards is not documented and fails - specifically in SP 2016/201...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Externalize DDF Alias level statistics into SMF

Currently we do have SMF data for DB2 system level distributed workload but do not have DDF Alias level statistics with in SMF, only available adhoc option is to issue DIS DDF <alias> DETAIL to look at DDF alias level active dbats and connec...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Controlling PAW Book level security by TM1 objects

Can we control PAW Book level security by TM1 objects? As its adding an Operational overhead of controlling PAW books level security.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

FastMap #5: Possibility to define Enumeration Rules and User Rules for Admin View.

Possibility to define Enumeration Rules and User Rules for Admin View.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Deletion of closed reporting periods

With the importance of deleting sensitive data combined with GDPR related duties, we would appreciate a solution to select and then delete (or anonymize) reporting periods. More specifically, our system includes various reportings happening on a q...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration