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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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SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Generate SW ID Tag for Trial Installs

Activating a license with db2licm generates a SW ID Tag, which can then be recognized by an ILMT software scan for license reporting.Currently a trial edition is not generating a SW ID Tag, so they cannot be discovered by LMT.As it is important fo...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Lineage - display query subject filter name rather than 'Embedded Filter#'

In IBM Cognos Lineage filters defined in Query Subjects in Framework Manager packages are displayed as e.g. 'Embedded Filter 1' rather than displaying the defined name of the filter in the package. As this information is not visible for the lineag...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Gateway access to Salesforce from DataStage

Currently we are using DataPower as gateway between DataStage and Salesforce, but we have issue reported on the SR. It is considered that issue is related with response message rewriting so we want solution without rewriting the message.Our expect...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Do away with having to enter @ for character comparisons in Turbointegrator

Having to use @= for comparison statements for strings as opposed to just = for numeric is cumbersome.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

support for EF for ODBC driver

Currently Entity Framework is supported only by DRDA driver. It is not possible to switch ODBC applications to native DRDA applications. Rather existing applications will remain as ODBC. Despite of this it would be good to have EF - it simplifies ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Text orientation

Text orientation is not supported from Excel, so when you publish a sheet and view it via PAW the text loses its formatting. This means I have to make the columns extra wide just so the headings are readable.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Simple folders without settings

When creating a folder you must decide whether digressions are allowed or not. To simplify the top level dialog structure is would be nice to be able to organise nodes in folders without these settings (they would act simply as containers which ha...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration