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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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Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow passing "Extra Data" item on drill-through definition from 11.1 Visualizations

User wants to see [Product Line] in a visualization so that users see the name of the product line. For performance purposes, we want to pass [Product Line Code] on drill-through. Currently the only way to do this is to nest the dimensional inform...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add support for system versioned tables

This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Planning Analytics For Excel - Self Updateable

The pace at which PAX is updated (roughly once a month) makes it really hard for any large organization to keep it updated. Big organization do not grant users the ability to install software directly and we can't be constantly building scripts fo...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

PAW Plans: Individual submission of users of the same PAW user group

Right now, after one member of a group submits a task within a Plan in PAW, the task is completed for the entire group and all other team members can no longer submit their part of the task. However, this might not reflect the reality of a plannin...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW Plans: Locking assets of a task for further input after the task has been submitted

Currently, it is not possible to (automatically) lock associated assets of a task within a Plan once it has been submitted and is waiting for approval or after the submission has been accepted to prevent any changes to the entered or already accep...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Document about the each pods for services.

Many pods will run in CPD nodes after installing several services. Documents about the pods detail will be helpful.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

In DataStage, wildcards in the Azure Data Lake Storage connector are only allowed the filename, not in the filepath

In the Azure Data Lake Storage connector DataStage can read multiple files at once by specifying wildcards. But these wildcards are only allowed in the filename, not in the filepath. This means that all the files we want to read have to be present...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration