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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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  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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Dashboard Crosstab: Option to show measures as rows

Currently, when you have multiple measures on a dashboard crosstab it displays them as columns. Swapping rows/columns doesn't work for measures. Need an option to display multiple measures as Rows, in addition to the default of columns. We're tryi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Encryption for Informix backup.

Informix 12.10 fc8 has file level encryption available in the database. However, from my understanding if you do a backup, this file in not encrypted. Can we have a method to perform a databack that keeps the encryption in the backup data.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Unable to change server in exploration reports in PAX

Currently in exploration mode it is not possible to edit the field which contains the server name which the report refers to. You simply cannot change the value. In the quick report properties e.g. this is possible. See attached screenshots. Can y...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Reload/Reset Workbook

When there is need to show multiple demos in succession it is often required to reload/reset a single workbook only (Refresh Book is not enough). When updating to PAW 2.0.57 the option to Reload Book was lost. When preparing the demos, all sheets ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Bulk Update: Order of questions to follow order in questionnaire and follow dependencies

questions listed in alphabetical order, is it possible to list them in the order they are asked? Also-I remember during show&tell, all dependencies on the questions were available on bulk update as well, you could not select an answer for a de...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Quick command to "Blue box" in PAW

Our users feels that there sometimes is difficult to go through the blue box to be able to export to excel. It is especially difficult if it is a large view and a small screen, when they feel that they can't always get hold of the blue box. They w...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Need capability to aggregate rules in one rule set to be executed and reported on

As a Data Steward, I would like flexibility to schedule:a) Each dq rule as a standalone job and receive notification per job in the case of failureb) All dq rules applicable for one table as one job and receive notification per job in the case of ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Demonstrate the ability to support one screen review of rules, results and business requirements

As a Data Steward, I have to be able to review rules, results and business requirements on one screen
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

connection to MariaDB

I have the need to connect to MariaDB, so I configured ODBC.ini, but when I searched and tried several libs, the connection was not possible. When opening a call to IBM support, I was told that there is really no official support for MariaDB and I...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Platform connections: add support of Azure AD authentication for Azure SQL Connector

Customer has a requirement to use only Active directory authentication for Azure SQL datasource. Futher, the use case involves Watson Query (DV) to consume that connection to import data from the Azure SQL server. Currently, Microsoft Azure SQL Da...
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered