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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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Drive Explorer - Ability to set preferred date display

In Drive Explorer the current date is displayed as mm/dd/yyyy, however it would be preferable if this was able to be displayed in your preferred format. Drive already displays information in local date and time zone, however not the format.
12 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Custom steps in remediation workflows

Possibility of including refinery jobs, datastage jobs, remote API (eg: create a Jira ticket..), ... or other integrations in one of the steps of the remediation flow.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support TimeSeries Data Type on Informix .NET Core

Microsoft .NET Core is the 5th Programming Language around the world. We have several projects where we gonna use Informix Time Series with C# language. Would be great if Informix .NET Core support timeseries data type.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

CORS settings should be controled by user in IBM Cloud DB2 service( like as Cloudant ).

In IBM Cloud, we can use DB2 not only via JDBC/ODBC but also via REST API(HTTP API): https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4 This is unique and nice feature. This could be a reason to choose DB2( than MySQL or PostgreSQL, .. ). ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Synchronize Dimensions with different dimension names but same elements

Typical use-case: To be able to show cubes with different dimension granularity on one screen with synchronized dimensions.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Hide Hierarchy Name in Column & Line Charts that Actually Works

I received this response from raising a ticket about the hide hierarchy name toggle not actually working: "Hide hierarchy name" in legend property is currently an expected limitation of the chart engine we are using. When using multiple members fo...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted