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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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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.

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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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zLinux Support for IIDR IMS Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR IMS. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to ...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow Dashboard Widgets to be controlled by groups

The average configuration of OpenPages sees a heavy usage of the Dashboard and currently if a dashboard is getting too cluttered you are forced to either train the user to remove the widgets themselves, or to create a new profile (a very heavy lif...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Certification of Informix ESQL/Cobol on RedHat Linux 7.2

ESQL/COBOL has not been updated for many years now, but the OS is getting updates regularly. Need ESQL/COBOL to be certified on RedHat Linux as our applications are migrating to this version on Linux soon. Appreciate if you can expedite the certif...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Planned for future release

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

PAW: The cancel button on the set editor is huge

The cancel button on the set editor is huge (Image 1). Would it be possible to give it the same size as the other 3 buttons on the right? and potentially another color to make it clear that there’s a cancel button and not an empty space (Image 2)
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Better RMF API support in Db2 stats collection

Db2 can extract z/OS - LPAR related info from RMF when ZOSMETRICS ZPARM is enabled. However for this to work in a sysplex environment it is required that EVERY member in the sysplex has the Db2 SDSNLINK library in the linklist , regardless of whet...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Control over grid view column widths in Task Focused UI

We're finding grid views have disproportionate column widths in Task Focused UI (in terms of reader usability/readability) . If users/administrators had the ability to define the column widths, it would allow them to ensure the widths were appropr...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

real append processing on insert for LOB when specifying append

Our customers send us many millions of documents every day, which we have to save in the form of LOBs very quickly and without interruption in DB2. For this we use the APPEND option to be able to process the inserts as quickly as possible. Unfortu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration