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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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DSNTIAUL should support input LRECL size of > 80 bytes and not ignore input beyond the first 72 bytes

It is sometimes easy to put SQL all on one record as long as the LRECL of that record is very large. It becomes difficult to parse that SQL so it is divided into 72 byte records. Currently, the IBM utilities have input files that can have a LRECL ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSM Explain profile

Hello, Our idea is to use DSM so that users, authenticated in DSM with administrator profile, can do EXPLAIN without the need to have DB2 z/OS operation user credentials, as in the case of Data Collection Credentials. We have a generic user crea...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PAW sheet/book refresh after process execution failed through button

A new feature was added in PAW, in order to refresh the book after process execution with a button. But the book is refreshed ONLY if the process ended successfully. It will be great if the book could be refresh also if the process is failed or ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Grid View in Task Focused UI should have same display functionality as in Standard UI

The Standard UI offers the ability to display up to 3 levels of object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the new UI so far are missing this ability. It further would be beneficial, if more than 3 levels could be dis...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Not under consideration

crosstab freeze options

I am using crosstab a my report. Currently we can freeze column header on report by right clicking on output and click on Freeze Column & Row headings option. However requirement from user is that they want to have both freezed column and Row ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Default the report properties to the report view properties

There is no way to change the Default Portal Action globally, only at a report level but it does not propagate to the report views. A report is created with the 'Default Portal Action' changed from the default of 'View most recent report' to 'Run ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep formatting from PAW view when exporting to Excel

The request is to keep PAW view formatting also after an export to Excel is done. Exports from a PAW view to excel becomes a raw data export and very hard to navigate. Often simple formatting has been applied to the PAW view on row or column level...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

Audit Log on Questionnaires and Split Comments based on role

Two fold. An audit log on questionnaires to review changed responses and who changed them, as well as prior comments. Second, the ability for different groups to have different comment boxes they can edit.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration