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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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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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When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

PAW Cubeviewer: Asymmetric calculations

PAW cubeviewer introduced "on the fly" calculation within the cubeview. However these calculation only works in symetric mode which means that we can't cross specific elements of several dimensions to create calculation. A simple example in financ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Postgres Support for Cognos Analytics Content Store

Postgres is supported by Cognos Analytics as a data source but is not supported as a content store database. From a deployment and cost perspective it would make sense to support Postgres for both so that it simplifies the process. Currently, we...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

DataStage to support numeric Column Family (CF) in HBase

Currently, DataStage only supports alphabetic (letters) Column Family (CF) in HBase tables and it is a common practice to create numeric CF in HBase tables (e.g. the default CF is zero). Therefore, if CF has a numeric value DataStage cannot write ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Delivered

Change DCLGEN to generate S9(4) COMP-5 instead of S9(4) COMP for SMALLINT columns

DCLGEN generates SMALLINT fields as S9(4) COMP with acceptable values +32767 through -32768. A Cobol 'MOVE' makes truncation possible and renders any value over 9999 risky. IBM Case Number: TS003249935
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Writing data to DV table on Cloud Pak for Data

In CP4D 2.5, we cannot export data to DV table from Modeler flow and Notebook. Please add features that can do that. In our customer's organization, we have to have the data-scientist-role users use only limited data, and are planning to use Data ...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler 5 Delivered

WCA4Z in Z Open Editor needs to access IBM Cloud through a proxy server

When Z Open Editor clients can only access IBM Cloud through a proxy server, attempts to set the API key fail with an error: 2024-03-21T13:45:09.845-04:00 ERROR: 2024-03-21T17:45:09.845Z: watsonx Code Assistant error response: [/v1/wca/codegen/c2j...

Speed up Drive Explorer display of folder view

Display of the \data folder is extremely slow (60+ seconds). Need to improve this via caching and/or partial display while load continues in the back ground or something else.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Add the ability to disable/enable individual Reporting Periods

Customers that have been using OpenPages for a very long time sometimes have a large number of Reporting periods - not all the data from all the Reporting Periods needs to be available to users through the UI - e.g. when you are creating Quarterly...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Delivered

Option to export results to excel when used "view tabular data" for Join query

User wants to have a option to export "View tabular data" results to excel for join queries.Right now, when you click on this option, it shows data in HTML but doesn't have option to export to excel
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered