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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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Provide more granular database-level privileges than just CONNECT, RESOURCE and DBA

We have a requirement to support a code deployment role where a user, whose job role is not a DBA, can release code into a given database. The type of things they would be doing is:* Creating and dropping procedures, synonyms, triggers, indices an...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Documentation of raw data format in Classic CDC MQ publishing.

This is not functional requirement, but documentation requirement. it seems that Classic CDC MQ publishing have a capability to publish data format by using PUBBINASIS=TRUE. I've found this function in developerWorks. https://developer.ibm.com/ans...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add same table multiple times as role playing dimensions in data module

In the data modelling component, it should be possible to add the same table in multiple times to be able to create a datamart with roleplaying dimensions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IGC New Welcome Page Customization

Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, state your current workaround(s), state any proposed solution(s), state the benefits/value this idea has, state # of users impacted and how often are they impacted In IGC Class...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

Condtional formatting of report chart axis

In our scenario we have several hundred KPIs measured on scorecards (one report in Cognos). The KPIs can have differing unit types, such as Percent with 2 decimal places, Percent with 4 decimal places, whole numbers, CAD currency, USD currency, et...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add options to Run and Save after selecting "Try It" when editing a Data Module

When editing a Data Module, after selecting "Try It", there is no option for Run options, View, Run, or Save. As it is now, you have to save the Data Module, then from the Welcome screen, select Edit Report from the action menu.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module - Alert feature

A feature that alerts when you want to modify a data module that is opened in edit mode by someone else (Like in Excel)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration