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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Allow dimension attribute to appear as a hover-over message or popup text for an element

Allow selecting dimension's (especially measure dimension) text attribute or an alias to appear as a hover-over message or a pop-up text if populated. The element which has a popup text can have a bulb-like icon next to it, to indicate that elemen...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC support for replication from SQL Server 2017 on Linux

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data from SQL Server. We would like to move SQL Server to Linux but CDC only supports SQL Server on Windows. CDC should support replicating data from SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML, XMLMODIFY, Rename a tag without loosing data

The possibility to rename a XML-Tag without loosing data in one single step with XMLMODIFY or with xmlquery as in LUW:Example 1:UPDATE EOBK.SMXML SET XMLDATEN = XMLMODIFY(' rename node /RECORD/FREMD_EROEFF_DAT' as "ABSCHLUSS_DATUM") WHERE SPARTE =...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Object Manager - Workflow Migration automation

Needing to update the XML files directly for environment values and variables when migrating from one environment to another can result in errors. Either due to missed updates, mistyping of values, or invalid changes being made and missed.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mask URL field

At the moment, Rich Text Fields does not support embedding URL linking, so the only way to link to an external site is via the URL field. When this field is used, the full URL is exposed as a link to the front end user. Customer wishes to be able ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Customizing Security Rules Error Messages

When Security Rule triggers an error because user unable to complete a task, such as udpate object, the error produced is a hardcoded message. It not even customizeable in Application Text. Since Security Rules are very specific to the implementat...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

The client has requested urgent support for Oracle RDS on AWS.Openpages V7 does not support RDS file structure.

The client has requested urgent support for Oracle RDS on AWS.Openpages V7 does not support RDS file structure.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

v7.2 Creation Views to keep Detail View as an option

The default Creation View that comes with v7.2 is a straight copy of the full Detail View which is fine. But as soon as I create a new Creation View I don't get the option of using the original Detail View one. The only way to then add a full Deta...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration