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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enhance MT Outbound Post Mapper to Support Changing of MT Field Values

The current MT Outbound Post Mapper already has the MT message converted to a blob and so there is no easy way to change an MT field value. The MT Post Mapper should work more like the ISO Post Mappers in the sense that the Post Mapper can add, de...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Support Mapping PACS.008 Group Header Control Sum Field

Enhance the product PACS.008 inbound and outbound mapper to support the mapping of ISO200222's generic PACS.008 /Document/FIToFICstmrCdtTrf/GrpHdr/CtrlSum field. Ideally, all generic group header fields would be supported.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

PAWs "Applications and Plans" if selected "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button will benefit of been able to be connected to a process

using PAWs "Applications and Plans" if I select "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button only allows to mark that the submission has been done. The question is, is it possible to combine this "submit" button with a TI P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Drop Down Selector fill colour

The default background colour for Drop Down Selector is white without any ability to change the colour to fit with theme of the work book. The fill colour in general style only applies to the border colour.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

With Clause on SAP HANA

When migrating from SAP BW on Oracle to SAP HANA or in general when using SAP HANA as data source via JDBC Dynamic Query Mode is not generating complex SQLs with a WITH CLAUSE statement. During a major project with a bank we experienced that from ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow converting of the SYSCATSPACE to the reclaimable storage.

There is no way to convert the Catalog tablespace to RECLAIMABLE storage. The only workaround is to create a new database and to migrate the objects and the data. Since, we have a lot of databases which were created in pre-9.7 versions, we are stu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup/Restore Functionality of PAW assets

Improve backup and restore in PAW, more flexible backup and restore: provide functionality to backup and restore personal folders/books for admins backup and restore via Life Cycle Management (move content to another location?)
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration