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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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New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Ability to edit existing calculations

In PAW cubeviews, there’s no way to check the detail of a calculation created by a user nor to modify it once created. It’s confusing for a user to save a calculation in a view, open it 2 weeks later and not being able to check the detail We need ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Share calculations between views

Today in TM1web cubeviewer, our users make extensive use of “create consolidation from a subset” feature which allows them to create consolidations that don’t exist within a hierarchy. Our application does have a central Referential team that mana...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add BlackBerry wrapper to Cognos Mobile app.

Our company utilizes the BlackBerry wrapper on mobile apps to give them access to our internal network. We do not use VPN on mobile devices. We would like IBM to wrap the Cognos Mobile App with the BlackBerry wrapper.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

email signature added to Set the email options

In a future release we would like to have the ability to include an email signature (that could be defined and saved somewhere, perhaps from My Preferences) so that when schedules are being setup there would be the ability to add it in
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Always log error message if TM1 suddenly crashes

Our TM1 server sometimes crashes without any additional information that can be found in the log file. The service just stops working which is visible in the windows event log. But in the TM1 server log no information is available (not which error...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Supporting Modeler @function (@MAX, @MIN, @SINCE, etc) on Analytic Server

Currently since Analytic Sever doesn't support Modeler @function (@MAX, @MIN, @SINCE, etc), the nodes which contain CLEM expression with @function will process locally at Modeler Server side instead of Analytic Server Cluster. This causing a buffe...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

BLU Load message improvement for SQL3119W

DB2 BLU load on LUW provides a less than optimal message for SQL1119W. It reports that an input data value has been replaced by NULL but does not indicate which specific input row caused the error resulting in no good way to troubleshoot the issue...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client on Mac OS?

Given the increase in Mac users, having the DB2 client available on the Mac would be prudent.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration