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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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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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Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

purescale support HADR ROS

System: DB2 LUW pureScaleActor: User needing HADR read of standby on pureScale environmentNow db2 V10.5 and above had provided HADR component for pureScale but missed Read of standby feature. Description: some customer had used HADR ROS feature on...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Future consideration

Alluvial chart as visualization in PAW

Make alluvial visualization type available as seen in Carbon Charts: https://carbondesignsystem.com/data-visualization/complex-charts/#alluvialsankey-diagrams This is a current customer requirement to visualize data flow between elements.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

db2expln stopped working from db2v11.5.7.0 onward on HADR STANDBY

db2expln, doesn't write / update and tables on the database and it was working till db2 v11.5.5 on STANDBY RO enabled, from v11.5.7.0 it stopped working, many time there is a need to check explain out on STANDBY RO enabled
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Statements (DDL and DML) 6 Functionality already exists

Add Last Modified By field to PAW Books and Reports

Currently PAW will show the following details for a book/folder/etc. within Reports and Analysis: Name, Location, Type, and Last Modified In order to track the saved changes to a workbook we would like the ability to have a field where we can togg...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Top/Bottom Filter for Barcharts

Currently, only Explorations can be filtered by TOP/Bottom members (Membercount, Percentage, SUM). When you change to exploration to a - for example - barchart, this information gets lost. It would be a good idea to keep that dynamic filtering fro...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Adding a View in PAW will add the 'Default' view if available

When right clicking on a view in PAW PAW should check for and open the default view (Public / Private) if available. this is the same behavior as architect
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration