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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple code conversion capabilities

Verizon has released an RFP where they are looking for the ability to convert code between several different languages. A list of the source code languages is in the attached image. Little data has been provided on what language they would convert...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to manage used sender mail address of scheduled mail report output

In our company reports are being scheduled and the output can be sent to multiple mail recipients. Report builders are mostly part of a team and are used to communicate to the organisation as a team by using a team mail address. But, the used send...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add function LISTAGG like DB2 and Oracle

Every query which need to group by and concat few columns is impossible with informix. For example for this SQL : select t.tabname, c.constrname ,k.checktext, k.seqno from sysconstraints c, systables t , outer syschecks k where t.tabname = 'my...
about 4 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration