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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Create a new BiF to do a real TIMESTAMPDIFF

The current scalar function TIMESTAMPDIFF is great if the difference is not over one month, then it starts guessing at how many days are involved. If you want to know the number of seconds between two timestamps it gives variously bad degrees of e...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

In Pafe Slicing from the Cube Viewer should have more options or configurable defaults.

At the moment when slicing from the Pafe cube viewer you always get a worksheet added to the existing book. When slicing direct from a view in the task pane you get multiple options (new sheet, new book, at selected cell). We would prefer to be ab...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for CA connector within PAfE

Currently, the Planning Analytics connector within PAfE is utilizing WebView2 for authentication and subset editor pop-ups. However, the Cognos Analytics connector within PAfE still continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll). This currently causes u...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Mandatory fields and attachments in plan tasks.

We are using the plans feature in Planning Analytics Workspace to submit KPI results that goes through an approval cycle. We are trying to create a data validation rule that prevents cells to be left empty, so we can be sure that the end users put...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

SPSS Statistics needs a menu item to return all windows to their default locations

IBM SPSS Statistics users often move between docked and undocked environments where they have access to just a laptop display up to many monitors extending and/or mirroring that laptop display. Currently SPSS Statistics saves the location of open ...
7 months ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Submitted

Provide export functionality to select other user info to be displayed in export, for example, to show email address or first name and last name instead UserID?

Business users will be able to identify quickly an easily who are the owner, assignee or user that has an specific role just into the record export. In this moment are able to see the user name (UserID) only, so a user should investigate the first...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

PAW - View a small text base file in Drive Explorer

This used to be easy on the rich-layer, but with PAW and Drive Explorer - can we have a viewer for small text based files that you can add to favourites like txt/html/ps1/cfg ? It can also be a widget for a paw book like a frame that points to a f...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ForceReevaluationOfFeedersOnDimensionChange

Data got incorrectly calculated / underfed due to a dimension structure change, either: An element moved from another hierarchy to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. A new element added to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. The...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration