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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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Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Renaming of file attachments in Event Studio email task

We are using even studio to generate output from multiple reports and send them in single mail to with all attachments. When we attach report outputs, it is autometically adding locale information as suffix which users don't want to see. Also, we ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAx - MDX Utility

There are user reports when we try to refresh the sheet it prompts "failed to refresh, Do you want to continue with MDX utility". If yes click on ok it goes ahead and but it comes every time we refresh, We tries saving that as well but prompt come...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function for Informix database

Informix does not have a UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function. Requirement :---------------------------------1) Cast function to convert from a particular datetime to UTC datetime based on the current timezone2) Cast function to convert from sysd...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Remove option to print a report output

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us, the idea of printing on a printer connected to the network that the server...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS security; hide install SYSADM and SYSOPR from DSNZPARM; use RACF instead

In DB2 z/OS, no group and/or userids are more powerful than the Install SYSADM and to no small degree the Install SYSOPR. Yet, these userids and/or groups are easily found by anyone having access to a db2 subsystem and knowing the existance of DSN...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to clear all filters in dashboard with one click

I have a dashboard that has a dozen filters. I want to be able to clear all the filter selections with one click similar to the "Clear all" feature in the fields filter UI.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 4 Not under consideration

Ability to apply 'stoplight' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to apply 'stop-light' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support LSF Windows ARM Based Execution Hosts

We would like to be able to install LSF Server on ARM based Windows machines for our Windows based simulation farms.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 1 Not under consideration