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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Creating Role for user to have rights to only Add New User in Admin client

We need to create a role where for a User who can add New User or change the role of existing user in the Admin client.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upload own Maps for PAw

Would like to be able to upload other Map types to match data to Map Visualization.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Column mask for any data type

With the attention on protecting sensitive customer data in our industry being very high, having a simple way to mask data on any table in any environment is a powerful tool. If a data element such as SSN is stored as an unformatted numeric, curre...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Logout - Browser's Title Bar

When user's logout the message that is presented to him is customizable in Application Text but the same message is also displayed as a document's title that is shown in a browser's title bar. Therefore it would be better to have additional Applic...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

XML Node cannot handle multiple values for a XML element

XML data source picks up the first value for an XML element with multiple values. All other values for the same XML element are ignored. When I use the XPath expression, the fields having multiple value is dropped, and takes on a NULL value. While...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Tab prompt that can be used in the Prompt Page

The new Tab control provided in a newer release can only be used in the Report Page Targeted to Report Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release