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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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mapping of jobs directories from Data Flow designer to Bitbucket folders

As per our requirement, DS Job code should be checked into the "Datastage" Folder available in BitBucket feature branch. However what we see is that a new folder called DS Projects with path "Training/Jobs" gets created instead.
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Change location of templates folder

The 'Templates' folder must be located at the root level of Team Content in order for templates to function properly. However I often design folder structures where the root level folders have dedicated purposes based on user personas. Being able ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow users to navigate to next zoom trace via a PF key

Currently, when looking at zoom information in multiple sequential trace entries, the user has to PF3 to back out of the current zoom, re-position the cursor on the next line and then press enter. After every PF3, the cursor returns to the top of ...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sync Cube Views Columns on Workspace if Expand and Collapsing

We have dashboards built where there are multiple cube views on a page and say Time is across the columns so we have Quarters across the columns. We would like a way to sync the cube views such that if a user expands the Quarters to see Periods th...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default File Name for PDF

While saving a PDF file, the default name is not appearing same as report name, where as all the other options has got that functionality.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support for EF for ODBC driver

Currently Entity Framework is supported only by DRDA driver. It is not possible to switch ODBC applications to native DRDA applications. Rather existing applications will remain as ODBC. Despite of this it would be good to have EF - it simplifies ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Cell Auditor Capability

ON some (but not yet all report types) in PAx you have the capability to get the cell properties. It would be useful to get more information on the results of the cell. Especially if it is referencing an invalid element. Also please expand the pro...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Splitting Software Update package upload and pre-check steps

When doing Software Upgrade, ie. when pressing the "transfer" button in Datastudio, idaa server runs a list of 5 steps. The first step is the transfer of upgrade package of 20+GB. This could take long if the package does not locate on USS (some cu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration