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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PAW column widths

The column widths should reflect the size of the contents - or at least have a toggle to ask for it. Currently, small values or big values, the column width is fixed and needs to be set upfront. How do we know whether the user requests aggregated,...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

For RSS and HDR nodes partition the apply work by transaction id instead of partnum.

For RSS and HDR nodes currently the apply work is partitioned across threads by partnum, We would like the option to partition the work across apply threads by transaction id. Currently RSS apply threads have to syncronise with the other apply...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Digital cards and deletion of tokens

The requirements described in additional details are alternatives, only one should be implemented depending on the effort and the planned delivery date. The customer would like to decide on one of the solutions together with IBM.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

PAW - Switch subset alias in menu

Dear Mr./Mrs. We propose to enable to switch subset alias in menu, without opening of the subset editor. thank you best regards Jakub Zais
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Request Optim to support Java 11 as Java 8 is no longer supported.

Currently Optim only allows for Java 8 which is no longer allowed to be used at the client site.
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

Improving CHECK utility performance: elapsed time and CPU

On our site, we have a PBG tablespace that, after loading, has the last partition in CHECK PENDING, the other partitions in RW. The IBM CHECK utility has taken a long time to complete the verification. We tried using the SCOPE PENDING parameter, b...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Scheduled MDI/MDE Jobs Timestamp and Modified by details are being changed by Service ID

When a User schedules an MDI/MDE Job using a Schedule, post the Job gets completed, and after a Few Days, the Last Modified & Modified by Details are changed by Service-ID. So this should Not Happen. So the Expected Result is: Even though the ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Prompting Restrictions (Circuit Breaker)

Prospect has concerns on employees over using prompting and running up costs. They are posing this question to AWS, MS and other AI vendors.
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

CIS benchmark guide for Cognos Analytics

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our internal security teams expect all product owners to submit CIS (security hardening) guidelines document. I am able to find for DB2 at https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ibm_db2 But I can't find any for...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration