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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow http links to be used within PAW for on premise (local) installations

Currently the widgets for adding images/media/webpages within a book within PAW are restricted to https links. If http is used an error is displayed, the web page must be accessed using an https link. Whilst this may be fine for a cloud based envi...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a monitoring table function to return transaction ids along with their commit times.

Goldman Sachs needs to know all the insert/update/delete operations against all tables updated by 1000s of applications along with their commit times. They dont want to use a replication. They want to use triggers that will be triggered on I/U/D o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard panels that are defined by profile in the Standard UI should translate over to the TFUI/Dashboard .

Because of this limitation, an Admin cannot create dashboards for profiles. When an organization has many users and wants consistency with some of the dashboards there is no bulk solution. End users must create their own dashboards in the TFUI or...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Functionality already exists

Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a very...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Derived Quick Report indentation based on the drill point

Seems like the quick report indentation feature uses the MDX level, not the tm1 subset level which means if an element is under multiple parents, then the indentation will be based on the first time it finds it in the hierarchy instead of derived ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bigquery connector certified for balanced optimization

In the face of the customer case indicated below, the customer asks for this enanchment to have the bigquery connector certified on balance and optimization in order to obtain optimized jobs for that connector as well.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration