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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customized Font in Schema

Currently its possible to change Color, add Logo's and more via the customazation menu option. However change the font and size is not possible. Mine Customer has the explicit wish to change this as well to their Company standard Font and width.Pl...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: "Cancel" in new set editor should be more visible

"Cancel" is not easy to find in new Set Editor when you open it from Viewer. It should have the same background as the other options ("Replace", "Save as", "Apply").
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS when running.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CHCCLP encrypting password

If i run a CHCCLP script the password of the user is visible in the log, this is not desirable.(the password is in an include file)
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedSum

2 new consolidation functions ConsolidatedSum(flag-value, cube-name, element_1, element_2,… ); ConsolidatedSum calculates the sum value in a consolidation and returns a single value. I know that this is the same as not having a rule in place, bu...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Disable and Enable Users

We currently have a certain number of users for our Planning Analytics Cloud Environment, during our budget cycle, we would have additional users entering their budget. Would like the ability to just pay for them on an as needed basis(typically 3 ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to clone collection from one environment to another

We have some collections in Dallas and others in Tokyo to secure the redundancy. All collections must have completely the same ranking as each other. For that reason, we need to clone collections of Watson Discovery from one environment to another.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

SAP PACK, ODP Delta-initialization for classification datasources

We extract classification data from SAP , in intial-mode with ODP this takes about 10 minutes. Not being able to run the datasources in delta-mode this is a performance issue. I reported this bug as a case but this way was unfortunately not succes...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration