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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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I would like to see service performance against standardized set of SLA's and KPI's for Software Support

Would like to understand how IBM is performing against their SLA's and if any trends are emerging from tickets raised under a particular service line or product.
11 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Needs more information

PAW: Select multiple items from view and pass the selection to TurboIntegrator

Hey, I would like to be able to select several elements in a view and then perform an action for all selected elements (e.g. a TurboIntegrator process). This could be helpful, for example, when customers are evaluating new products. The user could...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When dropping table retain OBID for when recreating that same table

Any account that utilizes QREP should want this option of retaining OBID
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Document that mipgap and absmipgap are no pure termination criteria but can impact the path Cplex takes in B&C

As discussed in support case TS007960403, Cplex parameters mipgap and absmipgap can impact the path Cplex takes during Branch and Cut. I suggest to document this because from the description of the parameters one can expect that these are pure te...
almost 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Provide a way to refresh db/node directory cache to an active instance

When an instance is active, it reads the db directory and node directory information and the instance keeps it in a cache. This catalog is used for federation, to connect to remote databases. If for some reason, it is necessary to modify the direc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Extend Audit logging with studio usage

It would be helpful if the use of the studio is recorded in the audit tables. Information about- which users use - which studio and - how often are important and could play a role for statistics, performance and licensing issues.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Move Questionnaire functionality from LifeCycle to New Embedded Workflow

Looking to enable the Questionnaire functionality to utilize the Embedded Workflow engine instead of or in addition to the Lifecycle functionality. It will be much easier for customers to create their own workflows that would control the flow inst...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Editable cells indicated by using color styles for PA Views in the crosstab widget on the PAW or ease of use data entry

Interaction - editable cells indicated using color styles for PA views - In current deployments (TM1 classis with websheets), users are used to see gray cells if no input is possible on the cell. For example, because the plan version is locked for...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration