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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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Differentiate hierarchy levels in Widget Selector

Add functionality to see different levels of the hierarchy in the widget selector, by size of font, or bold font, or potentially indenting (which may have its own issues depending on the number of levels).
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Preserve Ad hoc (unsaved) filters while the Grid view is still open

Users report frustration that in the TFUI, on a main FLV Grid, when they create an adhoc filter and apply it without specifying a name for the filter, it applies to the grid (showing "Unsaved filter" being applied). If user clicks on one of the gr...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Unblocked Checkpoints on HDR

When a checkpoint occurs on a primary it blocks the checkpoint temporaily while the checkpoint is applied to the HDR. On an RSS this can be prevented by configuring the config value RSS_NONBLOCKING_CKPT so log replay continues during checkpointing...
over 4 years ago in Informix 1 Delivered

Guage Chart with single value and capability to custom color it

Need guage chart with single color so we can color it based on a metric % and the color palette can be custom as well. Many of our customers are demanding that for reports and dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Modeler Flow needs to be able to update or delete & insert records into the DB table

In our customer's usecases, we export data to DB tables as several way. 1. Insert (simply appending) 2. Update 3. Update and insert 4. Delete all records and insert 5. Create new table and insert (with schema settings) SPSS Modeler's "database e...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler 3 Delivered

Diff function for produce log records after VSAM files are REPROed

Many customers are using IDCAM REPRO to update/replace the whole VSAM file during a nightly batch job. The repro operation does not create records in the logstream. As a result, user has to perform REFRESH to resynchronize the target database. Som...
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Delivered

Reduce REBIND phase-in wait time

REBIND phase-in only occurs once IRLMRWT (RESOURCE TIMEOUT ZPARM) is reached if the package remains used, therefore new package executions will be delayed until IRLMRWT is reached. This wait time should be reduced to benefit from this feature on s...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

ADB27C panel constraint/primary key column flag

On the ADB27C panel, give the user a facility (or let them know upfront) whether any columns are part of a constraint, index or anything that requires “extra work” (e.g. Having to use UP,DP to update, etc.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow for more then one Custom Folder for a given Role

11.0.6 brings new feature in the form of Custom Folders that allow for buttons to folders to be placed in the left hand pane of the Glass Interface. You are unfortunately restricted to just a single Custom Button per role.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered