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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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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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Platform switch Windows-Linux using OFFLINE database backup image

A platform switch from Windows to Linux (or Linux to Windows), would be much easier if one can use the DB2 backup image itself. Not necessary between two different DB2 versions, and it doesn't have to be an online backup, and of course platforms a...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

C++ 20 and Compiler Support for Symphony SDK

to align with our internal C++ version and compiler in use for quant library and risk engines in the environment C++ 20 on Windows : VS2019 version 16.11.31. ( May migration to VS2022 in near future) on Linux: gcc 11.2
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Under review

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add ability to format PAW widget size in pixels / units in addition to %

I'd like to create a dashboard where some items, like images, are a fixed size rather than a % of parent. Please add ability to specify the size in some unit like pixels, inches etc. consistent with other web tools (like cognos analytics).
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Icon 'Suppress Zero' looks the same when clicked and not clicked.

We'd like to have an icon change i.e. to depressed when zeros are suppressed, so it's clear from the main window if zeros are suppressed, as per Server Explorer cube view.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow package extensions to be added via UI

Often clients develop their own python packaes & libraries Not every client has a binary repository manager such as artifactory Clients can add their own libraries in WML using package extensions Currently those can only be created using the w...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration