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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,

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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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send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Spark pods, do better clean up for idle pods

In ticket TS016219727 we did some enhancement to the cronjob that cleans up spark idle jobs. This is an issue with CP4D 4.6 and 4.8 on-prem specifically with the Spark IDE started from Watson Studio. We would like for these enahancements to be in ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

PAfE to track PA-enabled Excel spreadsheets only

Threads/TM1top/The Session Monitor displays the PAfE version, Excel version, Excel workbook name, and Excel sheet/tab name of the current Excel workbook open by the user. Instead of displaying any Excel workbook open by the user, I believe it woul...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow inclusion of sub-mandator model(s) in upper-mandator simulations.

For those using a multi-mandator structure, it is currently possible to include model components from an upper-mandator when running a simulation on the sub-mandator due to the inheritance feature. However, it is not possible to do the opposite: i...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted