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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Alter (global) VARIABLE command

It is not possible to ALTER a global variable, it is necessary to do DROP + re-CREATE it. And previously we must DROP all the objects that depends on it: PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, TRIGGER, VIEWS ..., and the packages are marked as invalid. After havin...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

How to integrate with Firebase Auth service and OpenAPI

I'm stuck on this process. I have to integrate with Firebase Auth Email/Password but algo other third party auth providers like Google or Apple, but I have those under Firebase Auth umbrella.
11 months ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute more than one ALTER TABLESPACE statement at a time on Statement Execution Prompt screen

If we want to alter a series of tablespaces in a database, for example to move them to another bufferpool, change the Close Rule, compress them, or set them to LOGGED/NOT LOGGED, in Db2 Administration Tool we have to set up and execute the ALTER T...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

BI 10.2.2 SQL Data Sources change to Other in CA 11

For Data Sources that use Microsoft SQL Server, when a BI 10.2.2 Content Store is upgraded to CA 11, the "Type" of connection is being changed from Microsoft SQL Server (in version 10.2.2) to "Other" (in version CA 11). This occurs with any Data S...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize "My schedules and subscriptions" view

Many of our Cognos Analytics users complain that they are not able to customize the view of “My schedules and subscriptions” in Cognos Analytics. They would like to change the width of “Name” column and shrink unnecessary wide columns like “Priori...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ordering the fields on Data Module.

Ordering the fields on Data Module.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Javascript for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos

Esri Maps for Cognos provides Esri mapping and GIS capabilities in Cognos reports. Esri requires JavaScript support in order for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos to work. The SDK + IBM Cognos v11 does not support embedding JavaScript/HTML in interactive m...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Autoretrieve general disable

We use Cognos Analytics for reporting and analysis. Currently there is a setting in Cognos called 'Automatically populate values list' that needs to be disabled every time a new report is created. We need to be able to generally disable it once an...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration