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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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When we look at some message in OAC screen and exit it, we return to the home screen and not to the message itself or to the screen where the message we last viewed is

Returning from a message should allow you to stay on the same message you were viewing, that is, stay on the screen where you were (by returning, you lose track of which line you were on) , our proposal is to somehow mark the message that was view...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Adding Action variables to Java SDK response

I'd be possible to use the action session variables when integrating the assistant with the JAVA SDK library. This would allow customers the simplicity of having this information in one API call, instead of having to do it separatelly.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Capability to remap a Data items in a data module

Current problem: No easy way to remap data items of a table with re-named items or new items with the same logic. If a table item changes name or your DB developer changes the Capital or other settings there is no easy way to relink the Data ITEM ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow use of query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Allow option to set cube view as read only for all users

I kindly request you to enable a configuration option in PAW to set a view as read-only for all users. Below is my use case - As a developer, I often set up various views in a book for reporting purposes and prefer to prevent users from updating d...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

db2look with -printdbcfg must support parameters with "automatic" value

To clone a database and all its objects IBM recommend to use the db2look utility. If you use the -printdbcfg to clone the db configuration too the db2look utility generate the parameter values in the update commands but without the "automatic" val...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration