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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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Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module - Alert feature

A feature that alerts when you want to modify a data module that is opened in edit mode by someone else (Like in Excel)
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Alias from dimension short cut menu on views

It would be great to be able to change the Alias for a dimension hierarchy from the shortcut menu of the dimensions selector, similar to the way we can change the hierarchy. Currently we have to open the Set Editor to change the Alias or select th...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Configuration switch to restore 10.x E-Mail behavior sending from generic mail address

In Cognos Analytics e-mails, for example Reports run by schedule and link send by mail, are send with the owner's mail address as sender. In some organisations it is necessary to have colleagues change a report, a schedule, an event, ... then the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Needs a clean-up solution when open thread is active and there is an IMS outage

Please refer to the PMR:01622,69G,760.-----------------------------My customer does not want to restart the apply server when recovering the IMS failure.This is because the replication stop time expands and the data reflection on the target is del...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Not show a null value in picklist for TM1 Web and TM1 Applications Web

Hello, When we make use of picklists, in TM1 Web in a picklist dropdown we see first a blank element and afterwards the picklist elements. If we chek the behaviour of the same picklist in TM1 Perspectives, we do not see the blank element. we only ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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