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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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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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grant Modeler accounts READ only access to PAA Portal

grant Modeler accounts READ only access to PAA Portal. currently only PAw Admins can access the PAA Portal, but our Modeler users would like to have READ only access so that they can monitor server performance and threads that are running on their...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New feature to disable rules during data load process

Pain Point: P&L cube does allocations by rule. During data load of 1 million cells, the allocation N: only rules and N: & C: feeders fire for each cell causing unacceptably long load durations.. Workaround: Even splitting the load process ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable additional Watson services as optional enrichments

As part of enriching documents ingested into Discovery, users have indicated the need augment existing NLU enrichments with additional Watson services. Specifically, a user wanted to use personality insights and NLC to help surface insights on con...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

LSF to preempt tasks in a running parallel job that use borrowed resources to allow PEND jobs with guarantees to go running

We hare 3 queues.All queues have same priority.Each queue has a GRP SLA (guarantee).All queues are setup such that each queue loans out it guarantees to the other 2 queues when not used. In customer environment is often the case that 1 queue goes ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Request twice daily backup for Planning Analytics Data

IBM is backing up the data tier on Planning Analytics once a day. We would suggest this be increased to twice a day.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit the report retention settings and hide from users

We are a hosted solution that offers Cognos to multiple clients. We want to restrict users from storing too many saved report executions due to space constraints on our hosted content store.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Batch interface for SOM and USER statistics

We would like to be able to gather statistics for DVM using a batch interface. We want to establish history in a Adabas file and have a dashboard to see trends etc. The statistics we are interested in are SOM (ISPF 1.18.1 / 2), User stats (CPU, Co...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration