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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Salesforce Connector - Datastage V11 - API 40

Actually, we can use the api 39 in the salesforce connector and we need to use the 40.0 release.Moreover , the 41.0 release is done in salesforce.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

information server sap pack - need encryption with idoc stage

In the Information Server pack for sap, the abap extract stage has an SNC capability-to encrypt data. Need the same ability with the idoc extract and idoc load stages.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Windows 10 compatibility for Data Integration and Data Quality

Boston College is providing Windows 10 Laptop to Information Server Client users. We recently observed that Windows 10 client is not compatible with Data Integration Client and Data Quality Clients
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

ENH: Enable IBM Cognos Search by Modified Date

Customer would like to be able to use the search capability to search on report modified date.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

An option in Chart Properties in Report Studio that allows charts to autosize

Customer would like to have the percentage option available when resizing charts. In the Size & Overflow option that changes the size of the report the customer would like a percentage option that would make resizing easier and more universal ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to create a new profile by copying an existing profile.

This would make it easier to create new profiles without having to reenter all of the options. This would be particularly useful for Job profiles where there are many different options to select and values to fill in. Once you have a job profile w...
13 days ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Add a userfriendly cube "LOCK" function (like in Perspectices)

In Perspectives it was possible to right click on the cube => Security, and set the cube to "Lock". Causing a CAMID entry in the Cube property cube (to protect the cube for all possible inputs including Admin). This is missing.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists