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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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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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Planning Analytics Upgrade - Automatically update VBA code

As part of the PA upgrade due in 2025 as the old version goes out of support we need to rewrite all VBA code for the new RESTFUL API. Perhaps watsonx can help to automate that for us and any other upgrade activities.
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request of support CPLEX for MATLAB

Dear Ma'am/Sir, I'm aware that some time ago, IBM decided not to continue their support for a MATLAB interface. However, with this message I want to speak not only for myself, but also for the community of COBRA Toolbox users. I have had many diff...
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Submitted

Default Location for Report Views should not be root of Team Content

Interactive reports only: when user selects to save a rendered report output as a View, the Save As dialog always defaults to the root of Team Content. It would be more intuitive if the default destination for the report view would match the locat...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aility to Connect to SharePoint 2013 and Social Media Sites

Business has had the need to connect their CA deployment to a broader range of disparate data sources, including SharePoint 2013 list objects and also corporate social media sites such as facebook and twitter.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Use generic "From" emails for specific departments

One department within our organization would like emails for only their reports to come from a different email address than the Cognos default, and they do not want emails sent from one person/developer either.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Bar Vizualization with data table (like in Excel)

If you insert a chart in Microsoft Excel you have the option to generate a crosstab below the chart with all the data used.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run CDC datastage/transaction stage on z/OS, for example in a container (zCX)

It would reduce operational complexity (manage components on multiple platforms by multiple teams), increase the resilience, availability. We also think it will reduce the cost.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add a visual indicator to the interface to show which objects have a schedule

Please add a visual indicator to show users which objects in a list have a schedule. This is something that has always been difficult for our users in previous versions and remains difficult in Cognos Analytics. The only way to see if an object ha...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration