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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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PDS-E should be created when new DSN are being created. Currently PDS is being created.

PDS-E should be created when new DSN are being created. Currently PDS is being created.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Message domains for TARGET2, EURO1 messages

Like we described in Case TS004245021, we made the observation, that FTM SWIFT 3.2.4 does not provide message domains in MER for messages affected by the TARGET2 Consolidation or the EURO1 migration. In order to stay a participate for both Market ...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Creating MX message via sample queues/flows

Dear support team, We already have opened a requirement (ID145570) but they suggested to address here a new idea with the following text which we already used in the requirement: Description: This requirement is NOT related to IIB, but to FTM SWI...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Hide Parent for DrillDown

We are using a Tree-Map and when DrillingDown one member the parent also stays visible. For Visualizations this can be misleading or confusing for the viewer and so far you have to click manually on the parent element to hide it again. This exampl...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future 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 "...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio Support Package in CA 11

Report Studio using a specified package in url.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QMF for WEBSPHERE - BIDI SUPPORT REQUIRED as in QMF for WORKSTATION

We have many tables that has columns in Hebrew (in addition to the English columns) In order to see them correctly, a BIDI support is required ( bidirectional text layout transformations). This is already implemented in QMF WORKSTATION but not in ...
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration