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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

High availability for IMS CDC in a SYSPLEX environment

We are currently implementing CDC for IMS in our Production environment. This consists of 2 IMS v15.2 systems running on 2 different LPAR's, in a SYSPLEX. The OS on both are currently z/OS 2.3. CDC for IMS runs on 1 LPAR, replicating the LOGS o...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

How to clone IIS environment

Our IIS environment consists of 3 tiers:• Services tier host• Engine tier host• Metadata repository on Oracle database We are looking into way how to “clone” such an environment and produce a new environment, which is placed on different...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Product Master for Streamlined Data Management

I propose developing an improved Product Master solution that will revolutionize data management practices within our organization . As businesses grow and diversify, managing product data across various systems and platforms becomes increasingly ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need access to sub-folders while uploading/selecting files in PAW

While working in PAW I know that we can drag and drop files from local to the shared folder wherein in the back-end a folder gets updated named ' Model_Upload'. Now, I have file consists of multiple division named (HR , Finance & R&D). In ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

easy to show the SQL query and result

Currently, Cognos can show the SQL statement of the CQM model, but in the case of the DQM model, cannot show the SQL statement and just the MDX statement only. Most customers want the SQL statement. To view the SQL syntax, we must save it as a log...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Universal Reports to support the TM1REBUILDOPTION parameter

I've been asked by IBM support to request an Enhancement (to fix an obvious bug with Uni Reports) that will allow the parameter TM1REBUILDOPTION to recalculate/refresh a Uni report upon loading. Currently, in Excel, we have a number of Uni Reports...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Make the buttons that can apply a Quick Filter consistent

Using v7.2.0.4 we'd like the quick filter to behave consistently wherever it's available. eg. When using the quick filter in the Filtered List or Grid View, pressing the keyboard Enter key applies the filter. However, if you're in a List View and ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration