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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Action button in PAW to hold graphics

Currently the look and feel of action buttons is very limited. Users are currently able to add a background to a PAW sheet, but if they want an action button with a similar look they have to format the action button to be invisible and then insert...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

More Feedback within the Crawler Sync Settings section of website

More feedback info on the crawler process is needed within the Sync Section of the WDS tooling site. It would be great to know the under of documents / web pages that had been ingested in each run of the crawler. Currently only the complete number...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Method / Option within Sync Setting to initiate a complete reload of the documents that have already been crawled.

Currently even if you make changes to the schedule or the SDU collection, which is the normal trigger to re-read a set of documents or Web site that has already been crawled. Documents that have not been altered / edited will not be include within...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere DataStage Operations console - Authentication request

In current world, once you log into operations console it won't timeout until 12 hours by default. If you set LTPA timeout to your preferences, it will ask for the credentials after the timeout once & then, it never asks for credentials again....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Avoid system dump when SYSIN DD statement is missing

Customer has forgotten to put a SYSIN DD statement in an UTILITY jcl and the job is ended with messages : > > DSNU000I 08:45:14.67 - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = S188328.S188 > DSNU036I 08:45:14.67 - UNABLE TO OPEN DCB FOR DDNAME SY...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New a TIFF Correction Report

A TIFF correction Report can assist an FI in identifying TIFF TAGS that have been corrected showing the initial value and the corrected value.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

BAR_RETRY should retry failed dbspace backup instead of complete archive

If you run a whole onbar backup (onbar -b -w -L 0) and have several dbspaces to backup and one dbspace backup failsthe complete archive must be retried. If you run parallel backup (BAR_MAX_BACKUP > 0) you also need to wait untilall dbspaces are...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Make VPSEQT 100 XI-refresh feature delivered in PI59168 available for non-PGSTEAL-NONE pools or objects.

In PI59168, IBM delivered an enhancement for PGSTEAL NONE bufferpools, whereby setting VPSEQT to 100, Db2 would automatically refresh objects that experienced pseudo-close. This rectified a huge issue at our shop where pseudo-closed objects had to...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

idsdb0018461

Further to our discussion to PMR: 05530,999,780 we had the impression that feature request idsdb00184614 it will be included in 11.7 xc8 but it looks like there is a code freeze.It is very urgent to have this feature implemented ASAP.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Security Consolidation

Every User has particulary rights on the organizational dimension. They can see multiples members on differents hierarchy and need to know the total of members they can see. However, users have to made manually consolidation because the security i...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists