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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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allow CREATE FUNCTION with RETURNS TABLE to use SQLPL

Today (in V12 <and maybe earlier>) it is possible CREATE FUNCTION using SQLPL and RETURN a value (of any data type). This is pretty cool.. and powerful. This is useful to perform complex SQLPL operations inside the UDF (LANGUAGE SQL). For ex...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Row Height Auto Adjust for Long Comments in Application Web Excel Worksheet/Active Form

We have an Excel worksheet/Active Form that has been uploaded to TM1 Application Web. There is a comments section for users to input text. When they input a long comment/description the text is wrapped and the row height adjusts to what has been i...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 certification for ISAM

The customer is looking for this technote to be updated with Cognos Analytics 11. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24022695 There current configuration is as follows: onfigured SSO from WebSeal 7.0.0.26 to Cognos v11.0.7 through IH...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Open the book with the comment

When I open a book and someone else is editing that book, I want to see a message that the book is being edited. (When I edit a book and want to save it, I notice when someone else opens and edits the same book at the same time)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete books or views

If I delete a book or view by mistake, I have no chance to recover it. (it will be deleted forever, I need recycle bin for PAW)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard

Cognos Analytics - Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard. In Report, When values in chart get over 5 digits, they become to small and hard to see. Especially in Pie Chart. The size of the chart also shrinks when changing "La...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration