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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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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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Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

MDX Subset does not update in paw

We have a model with various dynamic subsets, that uses MDX to read a text from a cell in a cube, and creates a subset based on that cell. The subsets, in general, works without any problems. The problem arise when we apply the subset in Planning ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard Widgets to be controlled by groups

The average configuration of OpenPages sees a heavy usage of the Dashboard and currently if a dashboard is getting too cluttered you are forced to either train the user to remove the widgets themselves, or to create a new profile (a very heavy lif...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Bar Charts in PAW, positive and negative values in differenct colors

It would be great to have the option to choose different colores for positive and negative numbers in bar charts. An example is to show variance in % of plan vs. last years actuals in a bar chart. Positive variances could be show in green, negativ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as per schedule to avoid one last trigger and job run timestamp modification.

The MDE job was scheduled to run every week on Sunday till 06/04 but the job definition modification time & modified by the user got changed automatically on 06/09. It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to change label in Dashboard

It should be possible to change the label of the data imported to dashboard. Currently this data property is greyed out and can not be changed.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factoryMode=True

How to default the COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factory Mode=True
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration