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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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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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Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Online Change of CF_MEM_SZ should be online

It's not possible to change CF_MEM_SZ without stopping DB2 pureScale instance. If you want to add a database or increase memory usage to improve performance, it's not possible without downtime. pureScale should be highly available, but it's not wi...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Bulk Update for a questionnaire should respect question dependencies

When you have a questionnaire with some questions appear or not depending on the answer of a previous question, Bulk Update functionality does not respect it. Dependent questions either do not become available, cannot be selected or answered prope...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Locally defined functions within stored procedures and user defined functions

Since Db2 10.1 it is possible to define locally defined types and procedures. In many situations locally defined functions are missing.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Enhance ClassCastException to Support Integration with Dynatrace

We need to submit a request to enhance Cognos Analytics. Dynatrace is a system monitoring tool. It monitors your infrastructure (Server memory, CPU, etc.), as well as the application (in memory monitoring). When Dynatrace is enabled there is a fea...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to export message list of a FTM MER Queue to a spreadsheet.

Our users requested to have the ability to export the message list of a FTM MER queue into a excel spreadsheet. This would especially be useful when the message list may span multiple pages.
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration