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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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Altering the default value of a global variable

Global Variables: A global variable can be created with a default value. Each session that uses it will then instantiate a version of that global variable, with the default value and any change in the value is limited in scope to its unit-of-work....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improved admin of user rights

The administration of user rights, with a great number of users, is very time consuming. With many users, having more or less the same company rights but with minor differences you need to set up and maintain one company security group per user. I...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Attach file to an investment template

Possible to attach a file in the comment window in an investment template (Group - Data entry - Shareholdings and investment, Investment template)
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Improvement posting a journal in Controller Web

The posting of journals in CCR Web is time-consuming. Would be preferable to be able to write in the cells (account, dim1-dim4) and not forced to select from drop-down lists.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support of SAP HANA as data source

Due to the current policy of SAP all customers are forced to migrate their current SAP systems to SAP HANA in the short or long term .If they use their SAP Databases as IBM InfoSphere Data Replication sources, the migrated systems won't be support...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Allow RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL CHANGE to operate as the name says

This RFE is a result of the PMRs (31614,112,848) we have opened where the root cause was identified as invalid values in RTS tables. Current design allows to re-initialize certain fields in RTS (eg. TOTALROWS) only by executing RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL R...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Default Sort Order in PAW

We are trying to set the default sort order to Alphabetic (A-Z) in PAW for the assets within the folder. But every time we log off and login it defaults back to last modified. There should be a config setting included to sort the workbooks in an a...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Modules as source in transformer

Unable to use a data module or a report created using a data module as a source in transformer. Do not see a option to pick data module while adding a source into a new transformer model.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration