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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.

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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Function hex2dec

We need a scalar function to convert a hexidecimal value to decimal.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

CPD Service Catalog to add support to manage business partner license information

Business partners' services are listed in the Service Catalog. Once enabled, an administrator needs to apply license info that applies to the service. The administrator also needs to know how much resource units (or other metrics) are entitled and...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering. As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are abl...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0

User Groups, Folder visibility

Folder visibility Should work the same way as single user privileges. Now if you make a user group - everyone in the group can see all the folders and workbooks (though not the data itself). This makes view cluttered and users belonging to ANY gro...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visualization "Validate Bundle" Error on Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics (Cognos V11)

IBM Cognos Analytics Visualization Customizer (Cognos Analytics - Cognos V11) Error thrown by the Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics when you try to validate a bundle. Note: This only occurs in Cognos V11 Visualizations when opened thro...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Data Stage Integration/Connectivity with Infor (https://www.infor.com/) source

Hello, Problem Statement: Recently we came to know from IBM Support that Data Stage can't connect to Infor using jdbc connector stage. I am submitting this new idea based on IBM rep's recommendation. Please see IBM case# TS008021248. Benefits/Valu...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use nested labels for multiple axis charts

The multiple axis charts only support concatenated labels. There are no nested labels in matrix charts. The case of multiple axis is the same as the case of a matrix of charts, CGS doesn't support nested labels (just concatenated). Provide the abi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration