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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,

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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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Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add support for static SQL queries text storage in CQM_SUMM_TEXT

There is currently no support for the static SQL in CQM when one wants to store the SQLTEXT for such queries. Only dynamic SQL is supported. It is currently possible to see in the ISPF interface the static sql, but it is gone after a rollup of the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide Management functions over Data Sets

Data Sets are currently stored in the Content Store. Much like what used to exist for My Data Sets, please provide an Admin screen to view and manage Data Sets. Alerts (event studio or other) that will warn an Admin of increases to Data Sets will ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL CHANGE to operate as the name says

This RFE is a result of the PMRs (31614,112,848) we have opened where the root cause was identified as invalid values in RTS tables. Current design allows to re-initialize certain fields in RTS (eg. TOTALROWS) only by executing RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL R...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

git Repository & DataStage

Actually, git integration does only work for projects including Notebooks, but not DataStage flows. It is even worse: when creating project with git integration, it is not longer possible to add DataStage flows AT ALL! Only projects w/o git integr...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Ability to support Chat/embedded comments in dashboarding chart

In order to support the IBM OT workflow and the EPM Executive Dashboard, there is a requirement to allow people to exchange chat messages and/or embed comments while viewing a graph
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Able to copy data protection rule.

We would like to have the ability to copy data protection rule(s) within the UI.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

More details (metadata) inside virtualized table.

Add connection details to a virtualized asset. There is no easy way to see what connection or data source a virtualized asset is using.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted

Upgrade to currently supported version of Spring

Master Data Management ships with very old, unsupported versions of Spring Framework. Financial regulators are asking financial institutions to eliminate packages that are no longer supported.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Need ability for Schema level 'Deny' in WQ where filtering/masking applied

Want to prevent developers from accessing base virtualized objects in WQ, however when row level filtering is applied to those objects, the users with 'selectin' privs on the WQ schema can see/select the assets directly
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Query 0 Submitted