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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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"DBRM load module cross-reference feature" be incorporate into Db2 Administration Tool

As of April 30th, of 2020, IBM Db2 Bind Manager got  'end of service' and would not be supported anymore. Some Bind Manager Function were integrated to the IBM Db2 Administration Tool v12.1 but "DBRM load module cross-reference fea...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Display Custom System Use Notification at first Login

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) have similar information technology control requirements based on NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Special Publication 800-53 (Rev. 4) Secur...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CLPPlus to be more equivalent to CLP in terms of functionality

Would like to see CLPPlus enhanced to the equivalent of CLP for at least the following capabilities: - full create database support, including remote client support - update for DB and DBM configuration - CLP equivalency in terms of XSR maintenanc...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add new option to create schema / alter schema

Add new options to create schema / alter schema to specify default tablespaces
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration - Bulk Resubmit via Past Activities

Add ability to flag Failed requests and Past Activities and Resubmit en masse.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Expand RETPD in template to 5 digits

RETPD parm in the template should allow 5 digits with a value up to 93000
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Axiforma Font

Adding the Axiforma font in Excel from Cognos Controller.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration