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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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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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Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Upload PDF Files in PAW / PAfE

In TM1 Architect there is the option to upload PDF files via “ Right-click on an existing application -> Add file...” to upload PDF files. These PDF files can then be downloaded via TM1 Web or via Perspectives. We could not find a way in PAW or...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Hide Hierarchy Name in Column & Line Charts that Actually Works

I received this response from raising a ticket about the hide hierarchy name toggle not actually working: "Hide hierarchy name" in legend property is currently an expected limitation of the chart engine we are using. When using multiple members fo...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review
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Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Ability to update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

IIDR Replication Support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

We would like IBM to Test and Provide support for IIDR running on Amazon FSX for NetAPP ONTAP. My company is looking to transition to this solution to take advantage of Always On.
6 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted