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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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IPM FP12, Using encrypted DB password means DB maintenance scripts cannot be automated

Ref - PMR TS004780329. Raising RFE as suggested by Support team. In DB.XML, we use the db_password_encrypted option, this is for security compliance reasons, and cannot be avoided. Since we implemented this, certain DB maintenance scripts now ask ...
almost 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

NLU PT-BR model

The NLU Service has wrong (and very) misinterpreted feelings for some very trivial phrases, following some recent examples of phrases that it returns "0". • Pelo bom atendimento da Loja e pela qualidade dos carros. • Carros muito confiáveis, si...
almost 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Client is looking for custom screen, custom fields, and search options in the FTM4SWIFT MER screen.

Currently, In MERVA environment client using custom MERVA screen and custom fields to journal (Message Tracking) all incoming/outgoing FIN SWIFT messages as well re-routing activities within MERVA branches/users. For All the Message Types, the fo...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Option/ Data Tree for recently used data elements

Instead of selecting the data elements from data tree for dashboards and reports, user should be able to select the data elements from the "recently used" list of data elements.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

energy usage reporting (EAS) not working on intel x86_64 servers

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

host power management 'EAS' feature for x86_64 h/w

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Helping manage the icons that appear for

We are a large company with heavy dependency on Cognos Controller, for our consolidation process. Since IBM cannot hold more than 4 DBs in 1 environment, we have 5 - Dev 1, 2 & 3 (2&3) being for reference and Staging and Prod. With all the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Stop predicates in Range-list index scan (Accesstype NR).

Range-list index scan is a very efficient access for SQL Pagination. Whatever we use DB2 11 Syntax: Where ((Col1 = ? AND Col2 >?) OR Col1 > ? ORDER BY Col1, Col2 Or DB2 12 Syntax: Where (Col1, Col2) > ( ?, ?)ORDER BY Col1, Col2 In both ca...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration