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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.

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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Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

asntdiff Utility for Other-Vendor Databases that Does Not Require Federation

It is important for customers to be able to validate completeness and consistency of the data replicated by InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) between source and target. The asntdiff utility performs this function. asntdiff only directly access...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Keep Report Description after a Save As action

Most desktop applications like Excel or Word, keep description content when editing a document and then using Save as to save the document to a different name.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
about 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Required Support for Dynamic LDAP groups

Our company is implementing Dynamic LDAP groups and as per the PMR: 22069,442,000 this is yet not supported by IBM Cognos 10.2.1. Without this enhancement to support it will be a challenge to take Cognos to UAT and Production
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use the previous action as a condition (New Watson Assistant Actions)

It would be very useful to have a native button/condition that can detect which was the action of the last executed step (in a series of steps). Imagine that, from Action 1, you are jumping to another action/sub action Action 2. In Action 2 you ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Searching for widget properties in PAW

We could probably debate forever about what properties of a widget belong in which category but, for example. Under Visualization , Column and Row Headers we have options to do with the format of the headers. Under Custom, Table Style, we hav...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Workspace summarize calculation based on member security

Hello, in paw when using the summarize calculation, security on members is not considered, so it always displays the total of the dimension and not just the total of members that the user is allowed to see.The summarize function does not work part...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration