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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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A DB cfg parameter to set the default tablespace to prevent objects ending up in the wrong TS

When not explicitly set in the CREATE TABLE statement, a newly created table will end up in the last created tablespace. A lot of customers have problems with this for several reasons. They have no control over table placement when using a framewo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

TM1 API / Excel VBA - Refresh Sheet => Refresh Selected Sheet without sheet activate

In the TM1 PAX API it is currently only possible to update the current sheet. The sheet must therefore be activated before the refresh. It would be an advantage if you could specify the sheet and it would not have to be ‘activated’ beforehand. Rea...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Ability to customize color of buttons in message box

Blue color often associated to "validate/ok" and black color to "reject/nok" whereas sometimes it is quicker to choose the black one (e.g. moving a workflow)
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add option to remove last 20 terminated sessions from onstat outtput

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/discussion/avoid-to-see-the-last-20-sessions-terminated-in-onstat?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fhybriddatamanagement%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3dcf5...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Maker-Checker Capabilities on User Management

Safer Payments is being used by banks where there are extensive auditing and internal controls on what user profiles are being created and how are they being used. The absence of any authorization capabilities in Safer Payments while creating user...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Add an element in a cubeviewer

We would like to create an element in the IBM Planning Analytics Cube Viewer via right-click. This would greatly improve user-friendliness.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics v11 - add commentary on Dashboards in Context

capability to add comments on the dashboard either on a chart/object and overall dashboard. With the flexibility to show the comments based on the filters applied at the time.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration