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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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Default delivery option to email with attachment

Default delivery option to email with an attachment - currently we need to click 10 times to run a report with email delivery options but instead, it's a good idea to have an email with attachments run options in my preferences to just email repor...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add MS SQL Server 2019 support in Federation & Q-Replication...

TSMC needs to replicate data from DB2 ESE to MS SQL Server 2019. As you know, MS SQL Server 2019 already been GA recently (2019/11/04 https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/2019/01/sql-server-2019-versions.html), they are requesting this new feature...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit activities for objects created after trace has been started

Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit objects too, which were created after trace start.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit 'create / alter / drop' for views

Please add view-support for Auditpolicy OBJMAINT, which is missing as of today.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TopCount function loses logic when drilling up

TopCount function is used in Dimensional reporting (ex top 10). With Interactivity set to Yes: drill down works fine but when drilling up, the topcount logic is lost. With Interactivity set to No: drill down works fine and when drilling up, the to...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to auto upload custom theme and extension

We need the ability to auto upload custom theme and extension instead of performing manual steps.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 FTB analytics function Db2 V12

Started last weeks activating FTB in development systems by using ZPARM DSN6SPRM.INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL. Tried to get information using -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXMEMORYUSAGE) LIMIT(*) -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT). i thought i will get deeper to it b...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Lineage from Report Viewer

Include Lineage in the pop-up toolbox from the new viewer. So that report users can see the source of the data. Not just authors looking at data items in the package. This functionality is available in 10.2.2
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration