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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.

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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Attribute Properties Hidden not available for Lookup Specs

We had an use case to keep the primary key to be sequenced provided the legacy data should be loaded to the table with its own sequence and then later the primary keys have to be autogenerated. This was achieved by maintaining an internal sequence...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

Visualization from Spreadsheet can refreshes automatically

Report as a datasource of visualization that can be run to scheduled to output to a spreadsheet/csv and the refreshed spreadsheet used as datasource. Currently manually uploaded spreadsheets are used as datasource. This can be ne time but graduall...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Start Excel exclusively with Perspectives or PAx

You told me that it is not possible to have 2 shortcuts on the same computer with these characteristics: 1) starting Excel with Perspectives and without PAx 2) starting Excel with PAx and without Perspectives Only user interventions in Excel/optio...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

Tree Map Visualization missing Master Detail option

The report has a list and tree map, and has a page set defined on County. Master-detail relationship has been added to show County level data page/tab-wise. The list shows the expected results. However the Tree Map does not support a master-detail...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 with Db2 11.1

Our Linux team has already moved all our Linux platforms, with the exception of Db2 platforms, from SLES version 12 to 15. As there is no actual Db2 version that supports SLES 15, the concerned platforms cannot be upgraded.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BDFS to File Connector migration support

Hi,We are currently using HDP 2.6.2 from DataStage 11.5.0.2 and using BDFS stage. Since Connector Migration Tool does not support the BDFS to File Connector conversion, therefore we would like to see if IBM has a solution. Thanks
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SAP S/4 HANA compactibiltiy with IBM IIS suite (v11.5)

SAP S/4 HANA Compatibility for all of Information Server suite – ie DataStage, IA,IMAM ,IGC (all Metadata components as well)
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration