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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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In a HDR cluster, be able to shut down the primary without triggering the auto-failover regardless DRAUTO setting and CM

In a HDR cluster, one should be able to shut down the primary instance without triggering the auto-failover regardless the setting of DRAUTO and the existence of connection managers. In DHL environment, there are scenarios that the primary instanc...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cross Track from Cognos report should open in a tab in the OpenPages UI

When using cross track from a Cognos report to an OpenPages object it opens in a new browser window. This is very confusing for the user. Instead, it should open as a tab in the OpenPages interface, in the same browser tab.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

PAWs "Applications and Plans" if selected "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button will benefit of been able to be connected to a process

using PAWs "Applications and Plans" if I select "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button only allows to mark that the submission has been done. The question is, is it possible to combine this "submit" button with a TI P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request for API to search with Partial name of the Project/Catalog

Let's say I have 20 to 30 projects which are unique in their naming convention, Let's say I’m using the Naming Convention as follows: Eg: Structure of Project Name: <Application Code>_<Application Name> Exact name using the Structure: ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow functionality to save report selections in explorer GUI

Currently there is no option to save selections( time, dimensions, mesures, filters) made by a user on a given Explorer report.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Auto sentence/word completion

How better we design the bot, its always difficult to guess how the end user is going to receive it. I might train on different utterances, but user might be talking in different tone. Auto completion/ suggestion based on the trained utterances , ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need access to sub-folders while uploading/selecting files in PAW

While working in PAW I know that we can drag and drop files from local to the shared folder wherein in the back-end a folder gets updated named ' Model_Upload'. Now, I have file consists of multiple division named (HR , Finance & R&D). In ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Union all View (or common table expression of a UNION ALL) lead to HSJOIN

Case #0000086 Worked with developer and provided following explanation:When there is a join between a UNION ALL view (or a common table expression of a UNION ALL) to another input (let's named it Z), to be able to utilize index access on the table...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration