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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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  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: Possibility to export it to Excel

I think it can be very useful to have the possibility of a direct export to excel format (or other "standard" formats) of data modules, without necessarily having to create a report or a dashboard.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

upgrade the Bulk Load stage in order to use TLS 1.2 ( server jobs )

I manage a DWH environment on which about 1000 server jobs are run every day that perform a data load using the MS Sql Server Bulk Load Datastage objects ( Datastage version 11.7 ). Those Datastage objects have been developed to use an embedded co...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

API(or Utility) to display to native DLL and jdbc driver version of DB2 z/OS

Hi IBM,Can IBM provide Utility or API to determine the native DLL and jdbc version of JDBC drivers? websphere application server z/OS is able to throw error in case of any mismatch between native DLL and jdbc driver versions?. why can't this can ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded.

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded. Recently this was partially addressed with APAR# PI71965; however, this APAR only checks if the record is greater than the maxim...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

The ability to add a button to the prompt screen

The ability to add a button that allows you to save and read the state of the prompt.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Persona UI - Item Search By Category with "Must be in ALL categories" option

Customers want to search using multiple categories. In Admin UI, customers search for parts that exist in all of their selected categories from multiple hierarchies. This can be done by “Must be in ALL categories” option on the Admin UI. But the s...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Customizable Hover Text Color on Navigation Bar

Starting in 11.1.6 the text on the navigation bar changes to blue on hover. This creates a problem with customization because the text could become barely visible in certain situations
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

LifeCycle Manager Default User

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, you could assign a default user and password, but then didn't have to input it ever again. I am getting prompted 3 different times to get to a project just so I can look at it or edit it. That is extreme...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add catalog information about how a compression dictionary was created (INSERT, LOAD, REORG)

Db2 is able to create a compression dictionary by INSERT, LOAD and REORG. If INSERT and LOAD are responsible, than the first x rows were not compressed (Db2 reads them to build a proper dictionary). If REORG is responsible for creating a compressi...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration