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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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A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Have Templates for column selection+order in queries

Typically you have dozens or hundres of queries, many using an identical configuraton of columns. You need to specifiy those columns in every query. When changing the order or adding/removing columnsit is a pain to update them. When creating you q...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 1 Future consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RI support for tables with mixed encoding schemes

MR012908405 GGDB208012 GGDB207014
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Currently the developer needs pod level access to write python code on Cloud Pak for Data DataStage. It will help if python code can be added to DataStage jobs through a UI with developer level access.

Developers are trying to call python from DataStage. The wrapped stage has the ability to call python in parallel execution mode. However the script as we see resides on the px engine pod and hence is not practical for developers to use. Other opt...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration