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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.

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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Add Rename option for Column header

Sometimes, when using PAW to create some dashboarding and reporting capabilities, we need to rename some column headers in a different way. Of course we can use aliases to give a new name to the element on that column, but as you know the aliases ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Schedules delivered to API urls and ftpd to third party servers

Currently schedules can be uploaded to Cognos servers only and emailed. There is ask from customers who want to go get Reports delivered /uploaded to their company servers and APIs
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Run CDC datastage/transaction stage on z/OS, for example in a container (zCX)

It would reduce operational complexity (manage components on multiple platforms by multiple teams), increase the resilience, availability. We also think it will reduce the cost.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Preview feature for file attachments

We received a request for an enhancement to the Supporting Documents and Artifacts (file attachments) grid functionality in the TFUI. When user is viewing file attachments associated to an object in the object's task view, the request is to be abl...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration