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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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Decimal Data Data type support for DataStage File Connector

Currently DataStage 11.5 does not support Decimal Data type with its File Connector. This RFE is to request the File Connector decimal data type support.
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Include Null Filter Works Strangely

I have a report with two columns in a list: Period Year and Month and Charges. At the top of the list is correctly a row for which the timeframe is empty (because the period has not been close yet for those entries). When I add a filter to the rep...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Application Without ASLR Protection - RFE is raised for TS008415906 case

Hi Team, As part of security review, below vulnerability has been observed - During an analysis of the application, it was observed that "DSDesign.exe" do not have Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) enabled. ASLR is considered a security be...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) disabled - RFE raised for TS008415900 case

Hi Team, As part of security review, below vulnerability has been observed - The application "DSDesign.exe" executable was not using the DEP protection. Since DEP is disabled, arbitrary exploit codes can be written and executed from memory locatio...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

On Grid View Search with multiple object names

Users would like to have the capability to search on multiple object names at once in Grid View. For example to enter 3 Loss Event Names (e.g. space-separated) and get those 3 Loss Events as a result in Grid View.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Persona UI - Item Search By Category with "Must be in ALL categories" option

Customers want to search using multiple categories. In Admin UI, customers search for parts that exist in all of their selected categories from multiple hierarchies. This can be done by “Must be in ALL categories” option on the Admin UI. But the s...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable swapping dimension swapping and ability to hide subsets in Views - creating fix View

Planning Analytics Workspace enables developers to decline user access to set editor for given view. Very often clients ask us if this feature could be extended into fixing Views in PAW even more. hence we would like the ability to: 1. prevent use...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Datastage job migrated from V11.5 to V11.7 and use the Azure File System for storage account

We have migrated our jobs from V11.5 to V11.7 environment and uses soft link to Azure file system (storage account) for users input/output files. users are not allowed to drop files on server local system due to Azure server restriction on our env...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Is a defect

Support of PARQUET file format with SPSS Modeler/ SPSS Analytic Server

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format. One of our SPSS Modeler customer who is evaluating SPSS Analytic Server at the moment would like to access to Parquet file format using SPSS products.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow connections to db2 luw databases to use SSL

Our company is in the middle of implementing an 'in-flight data encryption' for all database activity that requires SSL use. Other IBM products such as IBM Data Studio and Data Server Manager allow for connections to databases using SSL jdbc drive...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 6 Not under consideration