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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Db2 LUW Automatic maintenance window setting

Current automatic maintenance does not allow to have multiple offline or online maintenance windows, only one of each. For example, we have automatic online maintenance window for 4 hours at night daily but need to have another definition for 24 h...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Preconfigure Framework Manager and Transformer for Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated

When customers are onboarded to Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated, customers have the option to download, install and configure Framework Manager and PowerPlay Transformer. The configuration is cumbersome, time consuming and IBM supplies most ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for inline file attachment editing of Microsoft Visio documents

Users can open Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages. Every time a user clicks save within a file that is opened in this way, the file is saved in the OpenPages file repository. However, other users cannot see the changes until the file i...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support for datetime with timezone

Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names: “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZO...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Security in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

Problem: Currently IBM PAW has a vide security access. Consumers and Analysts have access to both tiles - Application and Plans and Reports and Analysis, therefore they are able to see the list of all plans (Application and Plans tile), books (rep...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Sort Order in the Output of Burst Reports

The order of output versions for a burst report is not in sorted order. Users are looking for enhancement as soon as possible since this feature is available in Cognos 10.2.1
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Add Runstats Check functionality for DB2 LUW objects (similar to Reorgchk) to determine if a table really needs runstats or not

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use complex logic on parental criteria

Ability to tailor grids and dashboard views based on parental logic. This would make the data presented to users tailored and targeted.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration