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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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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 functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

IBM Data Management Console scheduled reports in PDF format

Currently the "Create scheduled report" only allows a URL of the report to be sent out in an email. This is to request a PDF attachment option made available so that users can access it directly in their emails instead of logging on to DMC to view...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Display element alias in context row of Package info displayed in PAfE

When creating Exploration in PAfE we can display Package Info as an option. Package Info has a Context row where it displays all view filters/selections. Only element unique names (codes) are displayed even if the view returns element aliases. Thi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Adding version control mechanism for Symphony config files

Adding version control mechanism to Symphony config files for easy tracking and rolling back. The files should at least include: grid config files: ego.conf, ego.shared, ego.cluster, ConsumerTree.xml, ResourceGroups.xml. users,xml. etc application...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to generate DDL related objects

Within Db2 admin foundation you can only generate DDL for the current object. It would be very beneficial to be able to generate DDL for all or some of the related objects - very similar to the Db2 Admin Tool GEN capability. E.g. While looking at ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow additional Filters on Applications and Instances pages

We have a very large number of applications (>1,500) and it is only possible to search by application name. It would be very beneficial if you could search/filter on other criteria such as Status (top priority), Team and Db2 system. We often wa...
about 2 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Submitted

Standalone Cube viewer

The proposed idea is to create a standalone Cube Viewer for PAfE to be able to browse the data without the need for Excel to be running in the background (like former Architect). Overall, it offers a faster, efficient way to interact with data, si...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Top 2 South African Language Support in granite

While watsonX currently supports several international languages, Afrikaans and Zulu spoken in the South African context have unique linguistic attributes not fully supported yet. These languages are essential for wider adoption in corporate and g...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Control passphrase case sensitivity

Today passphrase or password input is set to uppercase characters or not dependent on profile option CASE. When this option is set to UPPER, then all lowercase characters are converted to uppercase. This leads to failed logons and in the end to re...
about 2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release