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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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Plot Mapbox maps using Eastings/Northings

We would like to be able to use Eastings and Northings to plot points on Mapbox maps.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable the ability to upload Custom Style Sheets(CSS) and other CSS

Enable the ability to upload Custom Style Sheets(CSS) and other CSS to match functionality in on prem version of Cognos
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Need to support namespace based pull secrets for cp.icr.io

When deploying cloud paks into a multi-tenant cluster, there are security issues with having to update the global pull secret. This would allow any tenant in the cluster to pull images from the registry regardless of if they had a valid license an...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Change the mapping of a timestamp with timezone from varchar to a Db2 timezone for a Postgres database source

Currently the timestamp with timezone in a Postgres source database is mapped to a varchar and that limits how you can query and manage it. Other data sources map this data type to a timestamp allowing for normal processing using the various time ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Create direct connectors to OAUTH

Allows for direct connection, instead of current solution that forces us to use mutliple hops to meet CTC Standards of OAUTH enablement.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Create direct connectors to Pulsar/Quasar

Reduces considerable amount of hops via other technology to get the same result.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Provide delta changes or records to the persistent entity within M360

Allows for a dynamic view to a persistent entity without the need to re-build the entity each time.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted