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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.

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134 VOTE

Custom colors in Planning Analytics Workspace

We would like to have the opportunity to change color palettes and add custom colors to visualizations, text and shapes in Planning Analytics
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Drive Explore - To have compressed and delete function

For PA log housekeeping, it is very tedious if we need to compress multiple files and then select files to delete to free up space. This is especially on enterprise model that have big numbers of log generated. It is very inefficient and tedious t...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered
112 VOTE

More value formatting options in Dashboard

Currently formatting values is limited to 5 options in the dashboards (1, 2 or no decimals, abbreviated, and auto). It would be nice to be able to easily use other formats such as percentage, currency and customized.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Integrated security in PAW

It is very unconvenient to set security in PAW, because it is not connected with clients and groups from Planning Analytics. When client wants to use PAW, we nedd build separate security. It is okay that we need to set security for folders and boo...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered
113 VOTE

Improve the search functionality to allow a location filter

Today the Search feature list all objects independent of the location. It does not allow to search from a specific starting point This cause a huge list of search result. Improvement would be to add a filter where a location can be defined that li...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Providing a new HPU parameter so that we can chose the number of BSAM buffers for SORTIN.

When unloading and sorting data due to ORDER BY option, HPU reads data from tablespace and write it to DFSORT SORTIN dataset via QSAM with BUFNO=60, that is a default. In the environment where zHPF is enabled, DFSORT has used BSAM for SORTIN since...
about 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 4 Delivered

Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered
139 VOTE

Support web services as data sources

Allow a Cognos report or dashboard to retrieve data directly from the JSON end point of a REST based web service.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Provide ROWID addition for PBG to PBR conversion in V13 ALTER statement.

In V13m we get to convert PBG tablespace to PBR by a simple ALTER statement. However, we will be forced to look for a partitioning key by working with application team. In the mean time, in V12 we have a feature called "Hidden ROWID support for pa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered