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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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New UI Grid View Missing Horizontal Scroll bar

In New UI on Grid View if multiple column present user has to scroll down at end of the page to use horizontal scroll bar and while scrolling horizontally the header or column headings are goes out of view. - Add additional horizontal scroll bar...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Enable maintenance mode with appropriate & consistent messages for users across UI

In PA, there needs to be a feature which stops users from accessing the platform. This can be useful during a security change, data validation, metadata update, save data, bulk upload and many other maintenance related jobs. A maintenance mode is ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Report retains report options from session to session

Report options - Automatic group and summary behavior for lists remaining off, but the Delete unreferenced query objects and Enable guided report layout get turned back on after closing session. Visual Aids - Show Hidden Objects turns off after ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Provide user the ability to suppress generation of DISCARDDN, PUNCHDDN, UNLDDN for reorg TS

These are not needed in most reorgs, tool should allow the user to determine if these should be generated.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

externalize stop command failure

objects remain in STOPP when stop fails with no indication that it failed. a manual start followed by a manual stop is required to cause the object to proceed to a stop state. it's unfortunate, that issuing a start is required since that will allo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED column in plan table

MR0218096957 GGDB208030Mark all rows of a statement in the plan_table with an Y in a new column VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED when a dependency to a virtual index exists.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open Cursor with Hold

MR021809690 GGDB208033Add a new thread based accounting-class-2- and a package based accounting-class-7 counter ????????????????????????OPEN CURSOR WITH HOLD???????????????????????? which will be incremented whenever a OPEN statement with option H...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Export/Download PAW book in Excel format

When we export/download any PAW book, we have options like Image, PDF & PowerPoint. We would like to have another option for Excel.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to store and write data into the audit db after a short network issue

When the connection to the Audit DB is lost for a few minutes the created audit data during that time is not written into the db afterwards.In case a RemoteLogServer is in place as a single point of logs the dispatcher who send the logs to the Rem...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration