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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022

As MS SQL Server 2022 is expected to be released in mid 2022, when will IBM DataStage 11.7 support MS SQL Server 2022 ?
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Backup DATASTOR and DISCOVER into GDG; allow only one user to access TCz

1) Automate the backup of DATASTOR and DISCOVER to a GDG at every invocation of TCz. 2) Limit access to one UID to prevent multiple individuals stepping on each other's work.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EXTFILE size needs to be in TCz

The size of the EXTFILE is actually hard coded in the skeleton. Other than reducing the scan range (currently 3 and 7 hrs), we can recommend updating the skeleton. For the transaction scan, you can edit SARYSLIB members ARYINBX (currently line 90)...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

muti language encoding

We have a survey conducted in Dimensions Data Collections that produces a DDF Data file. In this survey we have an open end (text) variable that contains answers from the users on different exotic languages. The survey is conducted on Burmese and ...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future consideration

ADMIN ACCELERATOR RESTORE Command availability

We are in the process of migrating home grown Accel administation processes for adding, loading, enabling, disabling, archiving and restoring tables to use the Admin Tool ADMIN ACCELERATOR command interface. The provided functionality looks great....
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to add acquired balance sheet and net result in shareholdings

Normally when acquiring a business combination there's an acquired balance sheet needed for cash flow purposes and also eliminating the net result before the acquisition date if the acquired company reports YTD values. Today acquired balance sheet...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration