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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.

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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PAx needs options to set Auto Calc in Excel to Manual

When pulling up a sheet with multiple tabs of DBRW formulas it is often not the best thing when Excel will Autocalc it on load. Better that the user have an options of setting Auto Calc off or on for Excel by default. Yes this is an Excel Microsof...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize PAW Welcome Page

Current welcome page does not allow for customization on the Overview Video section where it says Welcome to Planning Analytics with Watson ! Can you please consider allowing admin users in PAW to: change the black background to another color resi...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Rulers or alignment functionality

PAW needs the ability to switch on rulers or align/distribute worksheet objects to improve the look of a workbook. Current using your eye or holding a ruler to the screen is the best approach to ensuring consistency across worksheets and distribut...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Sliding window for the monitoring page resource usage

Currently, monitoring ages do not contain a sliding window for the resources data usage.There is available last 12h, last 24h, last 7 days and "all data available".It would be very useful to be able to search a specific time range.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Make SYSMON_GROUP configurable online

Make SYSMON group configurable online. Currently an outage is required to set or change SYSMON. While some DBAs set this whenever they build a system, others do not, and it is frustrating to request this fairly common level of permissions and to h...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for Redhat 8 for DB2

We have customers who want to run on Redhat 8 and are not able to do so, this limits our ability to offer solutions to a wider audience.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Functionality already exists

Record all the options used on utility invocations

We have the idea to record online History to record all the options used on utility invocations.This feature would be very useful, to better control the execuctions and the history of utilities.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Better tool for performance analysis and tips

Until now, we can use the tool "explain" to have a query plan generated or use "onmode -Y" for the same purpose. Next, we can use onstat indicators or SMI queries to mearure performance. Anyway, this has downsides:- You have to know the query for ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted