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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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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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Sorting large amounts of data sequentially

We executed a query where a large amount of data had to be sorted. The execution stopped with SQLCODE -904 (temp. storage exceeded). This query was executed with DEGREE 1. When we executed the same query with DEGREE ANY, the query was executed by ...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

PAW - Download/Upload Colour Palette (IDs) for environment promotion

PAW Colour palettes can be manually re-created across environments but as each palette is created with a unique paletteId, the colour formatting is lost when we deploy between environments (colour palette needs to be manually re-selected after dep...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Provide the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in Emails

Hi, We would like to have the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in the emails generated from Cognos system in Cognos Analytics product. This ability was available in Cognos 10 by updating the ui_hide element in one of the sy...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing

Currently Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing. We are now running with IPV4 and that works fine but are now testing IPV6 for future use. Data Server Manager does work with IPV6 and Data Studio should as well. We tested with 6 part address...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Support for HP NS COBOL

CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
6 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Dropdown field values do not wrap for long names

Some of our dropdown values need to have long names as they provide very specific information. These are not displaying completely on the dropdown list i.e. values are truncated which makes it difficult to find and select the right value. On the S...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration