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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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When copying or moving a report, modify the warning message "an item with this name already exists"

It should display the report name in the user's language set, or even better both the name in default language and also the displayed language so the user can easily locate the object in question.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

message to indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted

To indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted, either through DSNI031I or via a new message.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MT to MX Mappers to Support Additional ISO Payment Schemes

The existing MT to MX translation correctly translates MT to CBPR+ messages. However, not all ISO schemes have the same fields as CBPR+. The existing MT to MX implementation will not create a syntactically correct Target2 message. The following pa...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Object Manager - Workflow Migration automation

Needing to update the XML files directly for environment values and variables when migrating from one environment to another can result in errors. Either due to missed updates, mistyping of values, or invalid changes being made and missed.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mask URL field

At the moment, Rich Text Fields does not support embedding URL linking, so the only way to link to an external site is via the URL field. When this field is used, the full URL is exposed as a link to the front end user. Customer wishes to be able ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Customizing Security Rules Error Messages

When Security Rule triggers an error because user unable to complete a task, such as udpate object, the error produced is a hardcoded message. It not even customizeable in Application Text. Since Security Rules are very specific to the implementat...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

The client has requested urgent support for Oracle RDS on AWS.Openpages V7 does not support RDS file structure.

The client has requested urgent support for Oracle RDS on AWS.Openpages V7 does not support RDS file structure.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

v7.2 Creation Views to keep Detail View as an option

The default Creation View that comes with v7.2 is a straight copy of the full Detail View which is fine. But as soon as I create a new Creation View I don't get the option of using the original Detail View one. The only way to then add a full Deta...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Registry Setting Formatting Warnings

A set of controls on registry settings to ensure that configuration strings are not able to corrupt through the input of minor syntax errors. (eg) a stray comma in the registry settings for object types will prevent users logging in. (even to corr...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration