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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.

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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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...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Copy and paste formatted cells from IBM PA Workspace into a Word document

Our client usually formats his spreadsheets in PAfE and publishes them to PA Workspace. He would like to be able to copy a formatted cell from Workspace and have that format maintained when pasting the value into a Word document, for example.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Function to return the default view of the Dashboard panels in IBM OpenPages GRC

Currently, IBM OpenPages GRC allows the creation of panels using the Dashboard tool. Additionally, it is possible to define a specific configuration of panels for certain profiles. However, the user can modify the panels that are configured as def...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release
107 VOTE

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Send IDAA internal logs to an external Syslog Server

We want to send all (administrative) logs from the IDAA to our internal Syslog Server via a secured (TLS1.3) connection. This means all activities and sign-on/offs that are currently logged internally only, shall be sent to the Syslog Server. To g...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration
101 VOTE

automatically activate a database when DB2 LUW is started

See PMR 14855,227,000. We would like some way to automatically activate a specific database when a DB2 instance is started without the use of external scripts or DB2 APIs.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 6 Planned for future release