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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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Set folder as home page

Unable to set a folder as the home page in Cognos 11. This functionality is something that users often use. It is useful, convenient, time-saving, while accessing folders that we frequently access.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performing an update of InfoSphere Information Server fix corrupts Datastage projects

"At Banco Popular client, the fix pack for IBM InfoSphere Information Server Version 11.7 had to be installed. However, during the installation, a backup was created, which takes the client 3 days. During the case response period, it was found tha...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need to have YouTube tutorial videos for MDM installation or Upgradation

IBM should create YouTube tutorial video for MDM installation or upgradation like WAS team has created. Following instruction given by IBM KC is bit complex, however, when you have videos showing step by step that you need to follow is much easier...
12 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

support list partitioning - Range-Partitioning allows only to define the upper limit for a partitioned Tablespace.

Full Support for LIST-Partitioning required! With classical Partitioning or UTS Partion-by-Range you can only define the upper limits (key-Ranges) for a partitioned Tablespace. The lower partition-range ist defined by the highest value of the next...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add MERGE-functionality on LOAD-utility

MR0112077423 GGDB207006
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add and drop include columns to/from unique index as a pending change

To accomplish high availability for schema changes in a 24/7 environment, an addition of an Include Column to a unique index should be implemented as a pending change that is materialized by an online REORG. Dropping an include column from a uniqu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow resource limit ELIGIBLE_PEND_JOBS usage for APPS

I would like to have a limit ELIGIBLE_PEND_JOBS for the consumer APPS. The reason is an application which needs licenses from a license server. In case of many simultanously dispatched jobs the license server overloads. Up to now the resource limi...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration