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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Build SQL Statement with host variables

Let’s review this scenario. You just implemented a new COBOL program into production. But some users are not getting the data they expected. You finally realize an SQL statement you are running is not returning any rows. You’re sure the statement ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Global Pins for Dashboard

Create Global Pins in Dashboardingso they can be shareed with other users. The business purpose would be for our developers to create a dashboard object library that users can just drag in and combine into their dashboards
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Pagination / OFFSET in IAS

Many applications in our firm use pagination, e.g. to display a part of a result set in a web application. This is currently not supported on the integrated analytics system.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Restart capability for failed subscriptions

Would like to see CDD Subscriptions restart automatically when there is a failure on the Target Datastore. Our configuration is IBM Mainframe DB2 => IBM InfoSphere CDD => Bluemix Cloudant. We have experienced failures when Bluemix Cloudant i...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Update embeded websphere server for CORS support

The cross origin resource sharing (CORS) cannot be enable in the WebSphere 8.5.5.8 server embedded in Cognos 11. Based on WebSphere site, the CORS are supported on WebSphere version 8.5.5.9.In Cognos 10, it was possible to configure the CORS heade...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio:Option to change font or font size in the Event Studio email body

The font size of the text for Email tasks in Event studio is small. Please provide button on toolbar to increase or decrease the size, also add button to change the Font.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration