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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.

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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Enhance Profile Monitors

We have just recently started making use of the Profile Monitor We are using it to identify threads connecting with outdated drivers. Would like to be able to have one entry to flag PRDID < JCC041* rather than enter a row for every version that...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Launch Update Structures (FAP) from TM1

I want to be capable of launching the Update Structures functionality, which is available in FAP, from the TM1 server so that I have complete control over the refresh of dimensions in the 'fap' tm1 server and put the functionality in a TM1 chore. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Insert spacings into list/table visualizations for readability

Our client requested the following functionality in PA Workspace: Insert empty Columns/Rows as placeholder for readability into exploration/list/table visualizations. We managed to insert some via basic calculations and formatting the respective t...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

Roll back job submission when bsub cannot receive the jobid from mbatchd

Due to a network hiccup caused by an overloaded server, job submission using bsub returned this message which of course does not include the new jobid: Failed in an LSF library call: Communication time out. Job not submitted However the job was re...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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