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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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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 a single SMTPE to be used for multiple DIREs

We have a need for IT administrative staff to have 2 profiles. One with lesser permissions for everyday tasks and one with additional monitoring and security. Both profiles need the ability to run the SNDSMTPEMM command form within various applica...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Temp folder when using TM1Web should clear itself periodically by PASS.

When using TM1Web in some projects, Excel sheets that are published in a web application create temp files when they are opened. These are generated in "C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1web\webapps\tm1web\excelsheet", i.e. in the installation direct...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for the bulk update of a secondary specification in PIM V12

We have over 300 secondary specs defined within our implementation of PIM. We can assign one of these secondary specs to a level of our merch hierarchy. Due to the disparate nature of our secondary specs, we need the ability to be able to select a...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Why do we have to run "lspasswd" to register windows user's password in LSF ?

Customers hope they don't need to use lspasswd in Windows. But LSF needs user's password to impersonate user before running user's job on a Windows execution host. This is due to the designed feature of user authentication in Windows. Windows need...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a monitoring table function to return transaction ids along with their commit times.

Goldman Sachs needs to know all the insert/update/delete operations against all tables updated by 1000s of applications along with their commit times. They dont want to use a replication. They want to use triggers that will be triggered on I/U/D o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a ve...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration