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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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Add ability to use Custom Templates when creating additional tabs

Users are able to create a template in Planning Analytics Workspace that can be set as the default when creating new books or selected when creating "book from template". This is great, until the user has to add additional tabs. When the user does...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Rolling update when using hadr clusters in db2u container environment

When using a hadr cluster with a db2u operator in a container environment it would be nice when changes on the containers (like db cfg parameter updates) are done in a rolling fashion so that the downtime is minimized. For example when changing th...
3 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Under review

Localization support for Planning Analytics Workspace content

To translate cube, dimension and element names in Planning Analytics, it is possible to use the captions and language locale codes. For example, in PAW, the web interface and cube, dimension and element names are then displayed in the selected bro...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Increase size of scroll bars

Is there any chance of increasing the size of the scroll bars and maybe highlight the size of the scroll bar area? When moving around the screen quickly it is difficult to pinpoint the location of the scroll bar area (hence highlight the size of s...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search cube/dimension/TI reference in cube rules/TIs

When trying to maintain a large Application, some sections may cease being in operation, having been superceded or no longer required, but in order to clean up cubes/dimensions/TIs no longer used, there's no easy way to determine if they are still...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists