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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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In IDA, provide "Space Evenly" buttons along with the "Align" buttons

When creating a diagram, it is common to have groups of symbols that need to be arranged evenly, so that the spacing is consistent between the symbols. Currently there is no way to do that automatically, requiring the user to attempt to do that by...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

In IDA, make the "Align" buttons on the toolbar work as expected

I have 5 symbols selected that are randomly on the diagram. I click the "Align Top". The symbols move, but some of them move down. The expectation is that they would align to the top of the top most symbol. If I click "Align Left", again the expec...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

In IDA, need to keep the selection of graphic symbols when moving

If I select many symbols in the IDA diagram, then move them, the selection is immediately removed from the set after I release the mouse or keyboard, and only remains on one of the symbols. This makes it difficult to get precise positioning of sym...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Import a DataStage job into a different environment on a different server (Git integration)

Currently, the script dfdGitCli.sh doesn't allow a job to be imported into a slightly different project name on a different server, e.g. from project_dev on erads11.ci.datastage.com to project_tst on erads12.ci.datastage.com. Given that our work f...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Informix HQ Enhancement

We are checking if we can use Informix HQ for our Production system. We have noticed Informix HQ doesn't have AD integration on it. There's not much auditing /logging on what has changed on the Informix HQ.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy discovery news into another discovery collection

This helps in building unified knowledge graphs and will help in accessing all information in a single store
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Function to move sysadmin database

Product : IDS 12.10We like to have a build APIto move sysadmin database from 1 dbspace to another.Currently we are using execute function task ("reset sysadmin",);And this will reset the entire database. We found out lately, multitenant database i...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Persona UI – Require ability to control order of Tabs for all Users

We require ability to control and set order of all the tabs (Standard + Custom), for all the users. Today you can control the order of only standard tabs in the View (catalog or step). All the custom tabs by default are added to the end. We would ...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Visualization mouseover/drillthrough support of recursive parent child treemap (starburst, icicle, etc) internal nodes

Add support for mouseover tooltips and drillthrough functionality on internal nodes of recursive parent child treemap Cognos Visualization charts (such as starburst, icicle, etc) as is already working on the leaf nodes of same charts. Not having t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration