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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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connection to MariaDB

I have the need to connect to MariaDB, so I configured ODBC.ini, but when I searched and tried several libs, the connection was not possible. When opening a call to IBM support, I was told that there is really no official support for MariaDB and I...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Data mover: option for "bstage in -all" to preserve source directory structure

"bstage in -all" copies all source files into the job working directory, ignoring the source directory structure. We would like to have the option to preserve the directory structure of the source files when transferred, for example using an addit...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Change in roles from v4.6 to v4.7 not documented and incorrect display in CP4D UI

Roles were changed from v4.6.x to 4.7.x: Access Advanced Governance, Access Data Quality, and Manage Data Quality roles were removed and Access Data Quality Asset Types and Manage Asset Discovery were added. Two issues:1) There is no documentation...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

HostFactory returns hosts with pre-start service

Currently, hostfactory does not calculate with pre-started service. but can not return the hosts with pre-started services. This causes the huge waste. Our user case for an app 4 scheduled hosts up 24x7 with 40 pre-start services to meet our short...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Dashboard Crosstab: Option to show measures as rows

Currently, when you have multiple measures on a dashboard crosstab it displays them as columns. Swapping rows/columns doesn't work for measures. Need an option to display multiple measures as Rows, in addition to the default of columns. We're tryi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW: Ability to Save and replace a view

It is possible to save and replace a workbook when clicking on ‘Save as’ however that’s not possible for a view. Would it be possible to activate that functionality for views (or any other type of object)?
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW: Default path for ‘Save as’

When clicking on Save as, the default location is the root of the Shared folders. If the object in question already exists, we would like the default location to be the current location of the object. It would save a lot of time since the intent o...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Reload/Reset Workbook

When there is need to show multiple demos in succession it is often required to reload/reset a single workbook only (Refresh Book is not enough). When updating to PAW 2.0.57 the option to Reload Book was lost. When preparing the demos, all sheets ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Add COALESCE function

Add a COALESCE function to Informix just like DB and many other databases have it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered