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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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Remove email notification when workflows complete "Run in background"

We have custom actions on workflow steps which take a while for it to complete, because of this when a user triggers the action step, they are greeted with a loading screen. A way to mitigate this is to set the step to "Run In Background" so that ...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Improve performance of queries with correlated subqueries in IDAA v7

Queries with correlated sub-queries where index access is involved will generally run faster on Db2z then on IDAA v7. Since IDAA v7 supports correlated subqueries, these queries are generally offloaded to IDAA, although they may run significantly ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication

The Problem: We have enterprise wide roll out of active directory authentication and Currently Jgate does not support it. Proposed solutions: Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication The Benefits/Value: We will have all the bene...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance search features on grid views

It is our understanding that in grid views (incl. filtered lists), only "name" and "description" fields can be searched on. We would like the ability to search on other fields displayed in the grid view.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Customize on demand tool bar (right click toolbar menu)

Need the ability to modify the right click/on demand menu toolbar on a report/dashboard, to only allow some of the items for users to choose.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration