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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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gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IBMCloud - Initiate Triggers following Cube Deployment and/or seeing a Flag File

since customer has no visibility on the cube deployment process, customer expects IBMCloud to handle end to end deployment and schedule/job execution process.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FTM for Swift Services to support Universal Tablespace Partition by growth.

We would like FTM for Swift Services to support Universal Tablespace Partition by growth for Audit Tables.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suggestion for pop-up message in contributor application in Planning Analytics

As we are aware, in contributor application, when a user submits data in the lowest level node(zero), it gets populated by respective node contributor and submitted for further approval by reviewer (one level above). If the reviewer thinks the dat...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using Pins within Stories

One way to create a story is to use pins - going into a dashboard and pinning a visualization - which then becomes part of "My Pins" within the story. What would be nice is for an administrator to be able to create a Global Pin or denote an existi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Lifecycle Manager support for SSO and related authentication

Cognos LifeCycle Manager is a very useful tool for upgrade projects. But as of now it does not support SSO and related authentication challenges. But most of the implementations happens with SSO and/or secured protocols. It will help during upgrad...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage functionality for Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Analytics should have the functionality to present data lineage for packages/data models based on Dynamic Cubes.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration