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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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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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Start Excel exclusively with Perspectives or PAx

You told me that it is not possible to have 2 shortcuts on the same computer with these characteristics: 1) starting Excel with Perspectives and without PAx 2) starting Excel with PAx and without Perspectives Only user interventions in Excel/optio...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A utility should be provided to allow cloning of CP4D instances

For on-prem customers with prod and non-prod clusters, it is difficult to maintain a lower instance that reflects production. A production clone process / utility would be extremely helpful for upgrade evaluation, prototyping, troubleshooting and ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Lineage metadata captured in Manta from Cognos and Informatica Power Center prior to CP4D 4.7.x upgrade should be imported to WKC.

Manta is able to analyze many more source than CP4D can currently import. Owners of the CP4D+Manta license should be able to take full advantage of Manta's capabilities with confidence that the work will not have to be redone later.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

DVIPA used for failover and workload balancing for the IDFPORT

we have set up DVIPA for workload balancing and failover for the normal OEPORTNUMBER, but we would also like to have the IDFPORT be set up to use DVIPA to be able to fail over to different members of a DB2 group if 1 member of a group fails
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

asntdiff Utility for Other-Vendor Databases that Does Not Require Federation

It is important for customers to be able to validate completeness and consistency of the data replicated by InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) between source and target. The asntdiff utility performs this function. asntdiff only directly accesses...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Keep Report Description after a Save As action

Most desktop applications like Excel or Word, keep description content when editing a document and then using Save as to save the document to a different name.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW : Error Logs in the PAW Screen

Hi Team, We use the Error logs when the processes fail. It would be great to show the Message logs in PAW. Currently through Architect/Perspective you can immediately to to Transaction Logs or Message Logs. It will speed up the development in PAW,...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW : Cube Views in the dropdown

We are using Architect/Perspective a lot. We would like to see the following abilities on Cube Viewer: Option to revert back to the original views(revert back) Provide an option to Undo the view Provide an option to select different view from the ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dimension Locking : Provide a feature to provide a list of dimensions to Lock

Hello Team, We currently sometimes update our dimensions during normal business hours. But during the same time, we would like to lock a set of dimensions during that time. We see a feature to Lock the dimension. But you have to lock each dimensio...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists