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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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MT604 and MT605 field 23 (DELIVERY/ TRANSFER)

For field 23, Either create a drop-down that accepts only TRANSFER and DELIVERY or it allows only TRANSFER and DELIVERY keywords. Current FTM allows users to enter anything within 16 character, when wrong code is entered, no error prompt to stop t...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Arabic names parsing

We are looking for is to have configurable option to reparse the token based on culture and confidence. Arabic name does not get parsed in the complete way, when for example; Muhammad Hafiz is compared with Hafiz and KHAN with KHAN and come back n...
over 4 years ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Not under consideration

FTM-MER should be able to handle this double slash (//) checking

FTM-MER should be able to handle this double slash (//) checking In existing Merva users are required to key in a double slash '//' at the beginning of each account number. In FTM this is not required anymore but since the users are used to keying...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Include "Process Progress Report" in PAW

The process progress report in Architect doesn't feature in PAW. Its helpful for when a process is taking a long time and you want to know what tab its stuck on. Something to give visibility on how a process is progressing is helpful for modeling ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

More default options to set in individual user preferences to make the system more personalized

We are missing options to be set for individual users on their preferences. Like default options to be selected in run as / delivery (by defualt disable prompting, by default send report by email, by default attach report output)
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate setting for compression of PDF reports vs Active reports

As it is now, there is a setting that determine the number of megabytes an attachement can be before it is compressed. This is on the delivery, batch and report server. However, the same setting is used for sending mobile reports to mobile devices...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RTM: rename, change legend & value reported of the "CPU Time Variation for job" graph

the "CPU Time Variation for job" graph of the "Grid -> View Job Listing -> View Job Detail" is an incomprehensible graph for common user. this graph is showing a number of seconds of cpu usage during a time slots. if we divide the value by 3...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Support rich text formatting

Our customer really requests (requires) support for rich text formatting with support for attaching images and video files. This is very important for transferring data to CP4D from other information systems.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Select All/Multi- Bulk Selection for Job steps

In our new 11.1.7 CA environment, we are testing all of the different functions that we use to ensure everything is pretty much the same. While testing, we came across one functionality that is quite different. When going to the properties of a jo...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration