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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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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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InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

The attributes after digestion of document for different connectors should be same

If you use IBM crawler today to crawl sharepoint, salesforce or public sites, the attributes in the document are not standard. At least the attributes in the query result. Take for example the URL property for public site, I need to read in metada...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support converting non-restricted databases to restricted databases in Db2

There can be legacy databases created with non-restricted mode. However as security policies get stringent there is need to convert these databases into restricted databases. The way to convert currently is to recreate the database from scratch. I...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Loss of Functionality in IBM Planning Analytics Excel - Browse function

In TM1 Perspective you are able to initiate a "Browse" (now called "Open in Viewer") at the cube level. in IBM Planning Analytics Excel you cannot, when you right mouse button on the cube in the Task Pane all you get is Refresh. If you scroll down...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix. Field 22 - for MT305 / MT600 Field 22C - for MT300, MT320 For example, current MERVA: Party Ref Party PBBEK0 0175 PBBEPX FTM-MER: Party Prefix PBBE Party Suffix K0 Ref 0175 Party Prefix...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Sorting and Hiding control of Alt Hierarchy roots in PAw

We have many Alt Hierarchies we have created (30+ for some dims) But no all users leverage or need everyone. Some are for TI system processes. We wish to be able to hide (by group security) the Alt Hierarchies that users do not need to see. Also...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Edit in a Datasheet View in UI

We need the ability for end-users to bulk edit records in the system in a datasheet view (where they can copy and paste data from Excel to OpenPages). This should be in the UI for end-users not a Fastmap template. This is different from Grid Vi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration