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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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Using distinct subsets and/or dimension attributes on distinct views on a same tab/book

Customer has a book with two views, one is a exploration, the other is a bar graph. Both this views are using the same cube and dimensions. A dimension (Region) has as its names/codes values are MS1, MS2, MG1, MG2 and so on. Captions for these ele...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Create SQL reference manual for InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS

My customer is developing an application that issues SQL to DB2 using the CLASSIC FEDERATION.The available SQL was answered with DB2 V4 equivalent on the PMR, but LOCK was not available.Application development is delayed and the customer is strong...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

4.50 macOS Client Drivers

Targeting Developer, students, and consultants creating apps on macOS
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Encrypted backup information in DB_HISTORY table

Currently there is no information on backup file is encrypted or not in DB_HISTORY table. Would like to see column indicating db backup entry is of encrypted db and backup file is indeed encrypted.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Security/Capability on global parameters

We would like to use global parameters as a place where users and advanced users can define and reuse parameters (especially default parameters).To be able to use global parameters in this way we need to be able to separate security/capabilities o...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Discovery highlight feature should exclude text inside image / anchor tags in html

Discovery highlight feature should exclude text inside image / anchor tags in html Currently it searches entire html for highlight feature an inserts <em> </em> tags inside img tags or anchor tags also which then cause issues when the ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Federation Support for Microsoft Access Database

Most of the retail customers use MS Access for maitaining small to medium databases and would like us to consider them while developing solutions. Unfortunately DB2 LUW 11.5.7 does not have any federation support for MS Access. We have to do a rou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Functionality already exists

DB2 enhancement of global transaction processing

We have COBOL batch procedure started on z/OS that gets always abend for SQL error -911 . The Cobol Host program1 does DB2 SP in order to transfer control on MicroFocus COBOL on linux and then return on z/OS by doing another SP call where another ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Remove XML files after saving them in the shared location

This case has been opened to eliminate the XML files that has been creating while saving the file to an external system.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Task-based Workflow in PAW

Task-based workflow in PAW: - Administrations can create tasks (such as enter product volumes, set pricing, enter new headcount, plan expenses, etc).- Tasks would have a description and instructions- Tasks can be assigned to users and associated w...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration