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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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Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...
28 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Logging opened websheets if they are opened by an ACTION Button

The feature to log websheets and cube views that are opened by users in Tm1 Web, which is available since Tm1 Web 2.0.70 does not work if the websheet is opened from a User by using an ACTION Button. If a user opens in TM1Web a websheet (this is l...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

High Contrast Option in PAW for Color Blind Users - Accessibility Enhancement

I have a user who is struggling with differentiating rows in a cube view and reporting in PAW. The current white/grey coloring of every other row does not work for the user with color blindness, when trying to differentiate rows in a report over m...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Change scale of Planning Analytics Workspace Websheets

Issue When adding a websheet to a PAW book, there is often a scroll bar on the websheet widget if it is bigger than the book canvas. A websheet can sometimes appear more zoomed in on PAW than Excel so it is often easier to consume the content in P...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration

Replicate a table with XML data type from IBM i (iseries AS400)

In the last few days we have had a situation in some customer with SAP on IBM i running, in which due to the characteristics of modernization of the database to adapt it for the use of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the requirement ...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
5 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review

Ask Tableau to support connectivity with Netezza Performance Server for AWS

- Why is it useful?If Tableau supports connectivity with Netezza Performance Server (NPS) for AWS, Tableau users can connect to NPS by using Tableau connector. According to below Tableau document, NPS is not supported. PDA (old Netezza) is support...
8 days ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted