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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.

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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...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 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

Unique Index, where one specific value can be duplicate

MR0125102749 GGDB209018Enhance the create index similar to the UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL clause
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Disabled alerts are not in keyboard tab order

Disabled elements in the report or dashboard (example zooming pecentage option) are not in the keyboard tab order. Zoom button is disabled on all the dashboard. Previously a ticket have been logged for this issue to IBM. IBM Responded "This is dis...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Non Unique Button

Non-Unique button, the save icon and dropdown have similar description as another button. This has been populating in all the dashboards. previously the ticket was logged with IBM, IBM Says this is not really considered as bug, if you click the dr...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Repository Oracle 23

Hello, When do you plan to support Oracle 23for datastage repository? Thanks regards
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

DMC: Custom Alerts not bound to monitor profiles

Today, custom alerts are created specific to the monitor profiles. When we wants to edit or view alert definition, we have to 'edit' the monitor profile, and go to Customer alerts. When we wants to view custom alert result, we also have to 'edit' ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Limit maximum number of writer tasks that can be assigned per subscription

We had an incident where one subscription had monopolized most of the writer tasks which caused replication latency for the RMs of all the other subscriptions in that source/target server pair. Therefore, there should be a parm to set a limit for ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add SSL certs

"Plain text" connections to Informix are only encrypted if using SSL. The manuals and internet only explain "self assigned certification" well enough to implement. To make matters worse the "certs" expire and then you have to wipe everything out, ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration