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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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Provide for language-specific models across geos (specifically granite-8b-japanese to non-Tokyo regions)

While it is critical to offer language-specific text generation models close to the regions we anticipate will use these the most, for global companies it is important to offer text generation capabilities across languages to multiple geos. For ex...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Expand energy stats to cover non-exclusive jobs

As part of working towards our net zero we would like to request more general energy measurement for non-exclusive jobs. We believe this would benefit all LSF users, particularly those working in the UK research environment where there is an incre...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create BigSQL table from a single environment (i.e. QA) against parquet files stored in two different Cloud Object Storage (i.e. QA and PROD)

We create a number of simulated test data in our QA environment COS with BigSQL tables and Data Virtualization. Before upgrading from CP4D 3.0 to CP4D 3.5, we ran some simulated test BigSQL queries in our QA environment. Now that our QA has been u...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1

PAW Default Sorting

In PAW, the objects on the main page are by default set to sort by last modified. When you have dozens of objects, it can be hard to find the object you are looking for. Can a user change their individual default to be soft by name? At the moment,...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add DVM Studio to IBM Installation Manager

We are preparing to license DVM software and implement it across our production systems starting mid-March 2021. Applications are planning initial use of DVM in production starting the end of March 2021 with a full production rollout in June 2021....
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Implement Settings to modify limitation of Report Output versions Globally

Need to have enhancement in Cognos so that we can setup limit on number of report output versions globally rather than for each report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set the company template as default

We have migrated to 11.0.12 recently and would like to make a template for our company and make it a standard template for all the reports. After the template creation we would like to make it selected by default for all users so they don't have t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable compression for LOBs that are not inline

Customer would like non-inline LOBS to also be compressed, as inline LOBs can currently be. Many other datatypes can be compressed and there are many large (up to 20MB) LOBs that are stored outside the table that would not eat up so much space if ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration