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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Resolve issues relating to quantum entangled action buttons in PAfE

Currently if I have an Excel sheet with action buttons on and I duplicate the sheet into the same workbook then to all visible cues we end up with two action buttons (AB). I can see two action buttons, one on each sheet and I can see them listed s...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Greater distinction between the Input / "All Leaf" level in the PAfE cube viewer / PAW exploration.

Discounting ruled cells, the only distinction between an "All Leaf" cell and a consolidation is that the cell is normal or bold text formatted.This distinction is too subtle. You can only tell the difference between a bold and normal formatted tex...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
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Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Enhancing Data Presentation in Excel for Planning Analytics

Excel remains the favored method for consuming data from Planning Analytics. However, users are not entirely satisfied with the presentation options of the Exploration Report, Quick Report, and the new Universal Report. They wish to display indivi...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration