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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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Ability to save 'canvas' views/releationships in 'Relationship explorer' for references and team collaboration.

Once a 'Relationship Explorer' canvas is created (mapped out), it would be very beneficial to have the ability to save this 'cavnas' view add other collaborators to this view. I know we already have a share option, however this feature is a point ...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Filter by Type in the Data folder through the Drive Explorer

This was available in perspectives and helps in several ways. You can select a certain type ie feeders and right click properties and get the total space consumed by your feeders. Also it helps just to narrow down the number of files you have to s...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics for Excel - UI for DefineCalc function

Hello, the DefineCalc function in Pafe is intended to enable the end user to create their own calculations. However, not every user is able to understand the MDX syntax, therefore a power user, TM1 developer is necessary for the definition. In ord...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
29 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted