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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Enhancing Patient Safety when Potential Overlay is Identified Using IBM MDM

Issue: The MDM application leaves a PO record in an entity. This allows a search based off the PO ID or the PO Demographics to return an incorrect patient. Currently the application prevents returning the ID when requested which helps prevent send...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Planned for future release

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to FLV excel export to include field metadata (allowed values for each field)

When users use FLV to export fastmap template for desired objects, they would like the export to include a row(s) showing the field metadata (e.g. showing the field data type or the list of allowed values for enum fields, etc). This way, when they...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Support Oracle 21c as source, including support for TDE

We are an OEM partner of IBM, for IIDR. A prospect is interested in the combined solution. They currently run with Oracle 19c, and have plans to upgrade their Oracle to 21c by June 2022. They run with TDE on their Oracle.
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias

Would be very userfull to wite WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias. Very usefull for developers who are using OLAP Functions or other operations on column.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Add a recycle bin for administrators

Users delete items by mistake and it would be nice to have a way to retrieve those items easily. It could empty on a rolling cycle to reduce size
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic (Schedule) planned download of used licenses

The license information about the current licenses can currently only be exported manually. It would be helpful to export this information automatically or planned / scheduled.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch delimiter of the license information export file

It would be helpful if you could change the delimiter of the export file. By default it is the comma. However, there may be occurrences that the name of the login also contains a comma.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display text data at aggregated data points within alternate hierarchies

Enable rules to display text across alternate hierarchy objects dragged into a PAX or PAW exploration view. Currently when the dimensionality matches the cube, text displays fine. As soon as you pull in an alternate hierarchy to nest amongst those...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration