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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAfE installation guide on Azure Virtual Desktop

It is a very common practice for organization to deploy application via VDI approach such as AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop). This is a very common practice and currently my organization is informed by IBM Support that this has not been officially sup...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Replace URL path option for images in books

Ease and risk reduction when it is necessary to change images on several screens and books at the same time (currently it is necessary to enter image by image and change manually). It could be an option in admin with replace (FROM/TO) that would s...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration
115 VOTE

Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

To provide flexibility to also kill threads of "Security Refresh" using PAW

To provide flexibility to kill threads of 'Security Refresh' indicate the necessity of having the ability to terminate processes associated with a security refresh. This could be related to ensuring adaptability in managing or interrupting securit...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Temporal Table supported by CDC for IBM i

Temporal table is only supported by CDC for DB2 LUW as source/target and for z/OS as src only. We requiere replicate Temporal Tables by CDC for IBM i to have a DR up to date.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
about 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Browser last prompt location

Scenario: When the report have a lot of prompts and user needs to scroll down to see all the prompts. Problem: re-prompt button causes page refresh and web page returns at the beginning of the page.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration
102 VOTE

Method for downgrading FixPack level of Db2 pureScale

In order to downgrade FP level of pureScale, uninstall the product, re-install and recovery from backup are needed.This is time consuming and cannot be done online.Customer want some easy FP fallback method.Most customer plan to FP upgrade with so...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration