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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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dbimport support for tenant databases

The database which is exported by dbexport is not possible to import as tenant database by dbimport. In the current implementation, the tenant database should be created by SQL Admin API first. dbimport is by default creating the new database as t...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Support btop with a job name.

We need a feature to btop a job name to put all the jobs with the specified job name to the top of the queue.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Caching TM1 Server authentication with TM1 nodes

To limit resource consumption, network traffic and requests of the TM1 server, Modeler should cache the authentication portion of the TM1 Server communication for reuse during the current session. Authentication should happen once per 'session' ra...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

No way to test Powershell scripts on the Data tier in the cloud environment

Configuring email to work on the cloud for our customer was very difficult because there was no way for me to test my Powershell script in the cloud environment. Email access to the SMTP server only worked from the data tier (not the server itself...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automated dashboard upgrade in PAW

Due to Log4j we did an update to Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.71. Afterwards we noticed the following message when opening an existing dashboard/book: Your Dashboard has been upgraded. Save now to maintain optimum performance. How can we autom...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Register Windows service without starting it

Would like an option in Cognos Configuration to register the service without starting it (for example having a option available by right-clicking on the IBM Cognos object in the explorer). This would allow the user to then go and modify the servic...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add string data fileds TM1 cube support to Cognos BI

Cognos TM1 cube as a Cognos BI data source is supporting two types of data: numbers and strings. Number data fields works fine in Cognos BI, but there is no support for string data types. Please add string data types support in Cognos BI.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Report name & logo name (firm name) not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML report output, instead appears new report

Report name & logo name not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML while running the report , instead giving Report name as NEW REPORT with logo name it's not same case in cognos 10.2.2 steps: open in report in report studio run in cognso 1...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration