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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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download dashboard output in excel

Our user creates Crosstab structure in powerplay, and they would need same flexibility, currently downloading data it in table and the converting it back in crosstab in excel will be a overhead. My concern is why IBM hasn't provided option to down...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

TI support for PAW cube view/widget MDX update

I would like to request a TI support to update cube view/widget MDX and refresh view after the TI is executed. This will allow developers to offer user selection driven customized views and visualization experience in PAW.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Relative URLs within Dashboards

Relative paths in dashboards, as is possible in reports.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add additional security for NZ SaaS

We would like to see Netezza SaaS allow a CIDR block to allow only legitimate IP addresses which would limit others coming from the Public Connection to gain access.
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted