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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide instrumentation to count the number of IDAA FAILBACKs to DB2

Provide a facility to easily determine the number of queries failed back to DB2 for z/OS from IDAA to support audit requirements.
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Datastage to support SQL 2016

We need to be able to use the ODBC Stage in a Server job with SQL 2016
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Change IIS Datastage Cerdential Mapping Model to work with Service IDs that have password set to NP in /etc/shadow file

Bank of America GIS (Global Information Security) Team has asked “InfoSphere Data stage Service ID's (dsadm and others) on Engine Tier to be disabled for interactive login”. GIS policies mandate that Service ID logins should be done through a ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add attribute to PROFILEs function to customize alert frequency

Currently we have 2 options as to when a PROFILE alert will be generated: DSNT772I - every 5 mins (summary alert) DSNT774I - real time (detailed alert) We would like to continue to use summary alerts but waiting 5 minutes is too long. It would be ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Repeater in Dashboard: Being able to control the Direction, how many Across and Down

Repeater in Dashboard is way to simplistic. Users should be able to control the Direction, how many Across and Down The moment there's more groups/categories displayed by the current Row/Columns Repeater can handle, it looses it's purpose
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration