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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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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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Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Need for IBM multimodal models, that will enable us to compete with Google and Microsoft.

Need for IBM multimodal models, that will enable us to compete with Google and Microsoft.
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
about 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 29 Future consideration

Dimension Reorder memory percentage change information

In Architect, it used to show the "memory used" and "percentage change" before reordering dimensions in a cube. However, in PAW, it can be only seen after applying the changes. Is there any plan to enable a "test" functionality in PAW too before d...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration
150 VOTE

Sorting items in Team Content and My Content - folders before reports

Sort items (folders, reports) in the same way like in Cognos 10 - folders first and than reports.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Functionality already exists

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
18 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
18 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

RTM: monitoring of multi nodes jobs

Hello, This request has already been submitted 9 years ago. I would like to know if it is possible to implement it now as we have more and more multi nodes jobs and this kind is more and more needed: For LSF jobs submitted using "bsub ... -n x ......
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 3 Needs more information