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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,

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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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Add invisible index

Add the possibiltity to set an index as visible or invisible so that, when it is alter as invisible, the optimizer only takes it in account when the session ask for the index
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter at the same time . For example when copy pasting from Excel.
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Application registration or service principal

While connecting/setting up data sources for Watson Discovery, currently the only option is to include userid/credentials - this is not suitable in enterprise solutions (like our case) where we have multi-factor authentication enabled for userids....
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Optim Installation support for the IBM Packaging Utility

Use case:Deliver Mass Automated Deployment of Optim to End User Workstations Business justification:This RFE will help enable the Optim Archive to pass HSBC security standards in order to make it solution to be used in a self service basis.
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

RTM: limits monitoring

We identified the needs of user limits monitoring, the blimits -w output accounting & per user|host|queue|hostgroup related graphs.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

DVM Inserts into SQL DateTime2 column

Inserts into Datetime2 datatype column is not supported via DVM. APAR number PH34676 has been opened for this. Opening this AHa icket to track APAR.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Method to quickly change visualizations to an exploration

We need a quicker way to change PAW visualizations to explorations. To day it requires at least 4 clicks edit mode->click visual->click blue box->click visualizations button->select exploration. Many times users want to get to the numb...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to send paw object to a new/existing book.

Users want more options for the duplicate button. Users want to take content from a public workbook and replicate/move it to a personal workbook to customize it.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Scorecard diagram enhancement

Currently, if I use the impact diagram on PAW on a scorecarding cube that was created via Modeler the page because my scorecard is so large, builds out to be as large as the page would need to be if the scorecard was fully expanded out. My request...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration