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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Enhance Trace Cell function

Please add following possibilities to the trace cell feature: Zero suppression must be enabled! Enable Drill Through within trace cell function Possibility to export results Possibility to use the filter criteria of a traced cell into the ex...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Options for controlling and securing email attachments

We need to have more options to control email attachment functionality. 1. Give administrators the ability to set access to email attachment option by group/role. 2. Give the option to prevent emailed report attachments when the report contains a ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Addition of a 4-4-5 Calendar

Add a 4-4-5 calendar to be choosen just like the 4-5-4 one already implemented
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Error Message on Login Page

Ability to show custom error messages on login page without having to use SDK. We have application which has link to redirect to cognos page. More than 500 clients use this app. SSO is implemented. User information is stored in Active directory....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add optional WHERE condition to MERGE statement

Oracle supports an optional WHERE condition for insert/update/delete operations when using MERGE on the source or target table This could be handy in some situations to skip some rows if the condition is not true.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Default delivery option to email with attachment

Default delivery option to email with an attachment - currently we need to click 10 times to run a report with email delivery options but instead, it's a good idea to have an email with attachments run options in my preferences to just email repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add MS SQL Server 2019 support in Federation & Q-Replication...

TSMC needs to replicate data from DB2 ESE to MS SQL Server 2019. As you know, MS SQL Server 2019 already been GA recently (2019/11/04 https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/2019/01/sql-server-2019-versions.html), they are requesting this new feature...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Support XLookup on TM1Web Websheet

XLookup function is getting very popular these days in Excel community, Planning Analytics is a tool that embrace Excel, therefore this function should be supported.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to delete and re-create cluster manager domain via db2haicu as part of major Db2 version upgrade.

Currently, when performing a version upgrade to Db2 V11.1 it is necessary (from a support perspective) to delete the TSAMP Domain and re-create it.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration