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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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dmctop - add interval and samples for background data collection

Like db2top, dmctop needs the capability to collect data using -i (interval in seconds) and -s (number of samples) when collecting data in background mode (-b).
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Workspace | Add option to switch between Hierarchies

Dear IBM Ideas, We kindly request the addition of an option that allows users to conveniently switch between Hierarchies in a workspace workbook without requiring them to enter edit mode. Furthermore, we have encountered an issue when editing a di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

setFocus Functionality

In previous versions of Cognos, we were able to use Javascript with the DOM form.document to set screen focus to the first input field. This is a Federal requirement for all aspects of our web site. In Cognos 11, there is no form and no way to set...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboards: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package

TS001075080:CAR11: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package.From IBM: I heard back from the Offering Manager this afternoon. The ability to create a calculation involving two separate sources...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: multiple cells selection

In the PAW, select multiple cells is available only by key shortcuts. It would be very practical select multiple cells also by cursor. Thank you Best regards Jakub Zais
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Permit query concurrency in conjunction with master detail relationships

We configured concurrent query execution in development and then set up the RSVP trace to confirm it is working for some reports but not others. In particular it doesn't seem to work for a report which uses a master query for the page set with sev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

send email notification to users via PA (Workspace) Administration

provide the ability for administrators to send email notifications to users to update them about administrative down times
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration