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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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InSync to NOT disable query acceleration

When IBM Integrated Synchronization detects an error condition for a table, that table is removed from acceleration to prevent Db2 from returning stale data because no more updates are synchronized to Accelerator. The incremental update process in...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add bloom filters similar to SQL Server.

Add bloom filters similar to SQL Server. https://sqlperformance.com/2019/08/sql-performance/batch-mode-bitmaps-in-sql-server This is complex bitmaps "This sets one or more bits in the bitmap structure according to the result of applying one or mor...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Possible for an extensions to just open children folder

When using extension to add a folder to sidebar it only shown all folder structure. I would like to only show children of the selected folder
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Microsoft Office capability to import nested contents from Cognos dashboard reports to Excel - TS000938522

On Cognos Analytics for MSO add-in v11, layouts and formats of Imported Contents from Cognos list cross-tab reports or dashboards with nested contents, are changing in any Microsoft document. Formatted cells change fonts, Merged cells in Cognos ar...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REOPT(ALWAYS) on statement level additional to package level

MR0123086821 GGDB208004 Make it possible to state REOPT(ALWAYS) additionally to the bind option as a clause at the statement level.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Determine last modification of report specification (xml) by user

Currently it is possible to determine when the report was initially created (Created Date) and when the report or its settings as a whole were changed. The "Modified Date" changes as well when a report output version is being stored or by job exec...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration