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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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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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Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Workflow: Extending the concept of auto start to also encompass auto-transition from one stage to another

In a similar way to auto-start, there will be instances where we would want the workflow to move onto another stage when the conditions and validations are met, without the user having to do this. Examples: - If using the Custom API to create o...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

New message indicating how many rows are deleted in SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX by MODIFY RECOVERY

Sometimes MODIFY RECOVERY does something although not visible by existing messages. With this enhancement customer can see what was done in the joblog and customer do not need to check SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX before MODIFY RECOVERY and afterwards to ...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Search for elements in rows of a exploration

In explorations in PA Workspace, it is not possible to search for single elements, when the dimension is used in Rows. There you can only select and search for Sets and Levels. It would be helpful to be able to search for elements in every selecti...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simple way to check consistency between DB2 and IDAA

When implementing data replication we found a number of tables showing different number of rows in DB2 and on IDAA (2 IDAAs installed with replication). To verify this we did as follows:- Disable table for acceleration in IDAA1- Run SPUFI with SEL...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For reports run interactively, display the report location.

When you run multiple reports with the same name, there is no way from the Welcome drop down to determine each report location making it impossible to differentiate between them. See file Attachments for a screenshot or view this forum post:https:...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow option to count business days instead of calendar days

Looking for the option to view a count of business days across Safer Payments, including: Case investigation and case reporting. How many business days have passed since the case was created or since it was last transitioned? What is the average n...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Not under consideration