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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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Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

WK Feed should alphabetize the Taxonomy drop down lists

Users have reported that the fields updated by the IBM WK Feed API: RCM-WK-Taxonomy:Regulator and RCM-WK-Taxonomy:Topic (among others) do not have their enum values alphabetized. IBM WK API periodically adds new enums to these shared fields, which...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Customize the maximum number of sheets exported by PAW (and exclude hidden sheets)

When integrating a PAX / PAfE sheet in a PAW book, we can go to Export menu and select Excel Snapshot or Excel Slice, but there is a limitation : we cannot export more than 50 sheets, which is easily reached because PAW includes unwanted hidden sh...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS ALTER FUNCTION REPLACE for inline SQL scalar and SQL table functions

Create an ALTER FUNCTION REPLACE statement for inline SQL scalar and SQL table functions such as already exists for compiled SQL functions and native SQL procedures. This would give the ability of the user to modify the source code for these funct...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web to have copy values, journals and opening balance functions

Current Controller Web 10.3 FP1 does not have copy functions for company level like in Controller Client. to include all company level functions into Controller Web so that users can perform the same tasks as Client users. instead of asking group/...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Insert spacings into list/table visualizations for readability

Our client requested the following functionality in PA Workspace: Insert empty Columns/Rows as placeholder for readability into exploration/list/table visualizations. We managed to insert some via basic calculations and formatting the respective t...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versio...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove the restriction SQL1407N

When loading a table using a remote cursor on a table containing an XML colum, the load failed with the SQLCODE SQL1407N.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration