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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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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Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Certain items that fail the modulus check do not trigger an error.

FROM TS007184858 When a modulus 11 routine is applied to checks for fields 3 (account) and 7 (aux-on-us) . If the modulus routine results in the check digit of a 10, it is represented by a dash in the MICR field. For certain items that have a nume...
3 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Book Selector Tile element source from Cube Cell

In a PAW book it would be good if a selector tile or list could source its starting element from a cube cell. Such as a user selection cube. Then on change of an element within the tile post this back to the same cube cell. This would enable users...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
about 5 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted
103 VOTE

Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: Allow formatting of picklist arrow colour in cell

We are bound by string colour guidelines, and have several picklist selectors in a cube and are unable to see the blue picklist arrow. It would be great to have the option to select the arrow colour to show the contrast See attached - unable to se...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted