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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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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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Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE 11.6 Rich Search on ColArea step add option for All items on step

We have MDM CE 11.6 FP 9 IF 3.When using a Rich Search on a ColArea step there're 3 options to search for:1) Items reserved by my user2) Items reserved by other user3) Item not reserved by anyoneWe would like to have an option to search for All it...
about 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add attachment file name to the schedule report "View run history" status screen

Please add the attachment report name to the schedule report's "View run history" screen so that Admins can see what report was attached to the scheduled report and was distributed.Also, if the attachment is different then the actual report name, ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update fields after copying objects

Often times when copying objects there are fields that have to be reset. One example would be updating the status field after copying an object. Another use case would be to update fields after copying templates from the library.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 5 Functionality already exists

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - canvas

When you change something in the job, flow designer changes the layout of the job in the canvas.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - error visibility

When we have a setup problem/error in the hierarchy stage in the mapping Step or output step, the Datastage designer visibly mentions them at the moment in the regular DataStage designer. But that isn't the case with the flow designer, you have to...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Burst functionality is not available for reports with Crosstab & Charts

Our reports have only Crosstab and charts, adding a list does not help. Please let us know if we can burst the report with only crosstab & charts
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Oracle Connector Stage to receive responses from PL/SQL

Can we enhance DataStage Oracle Connector stage to be able to receive response from PL/SQL and pass the value to an output link so next stage can use the values?
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration