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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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Hide standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to hide the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons located in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to hide the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons located in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Azure Synapse Connector

A dedicated connector stage for Azure Synapse will be helpful for organization with multi-cloud presence. Current version of Cloud Pak doesn't have this feature.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Edit Option for Custom Calculations in PAW

There is no option to edit the calculation that created in the planning analytics workspace, only way to edit is to remove and recreate a new calculation again.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

Improving filter when defining Add, Copy Recursive, or Set Primary Parent actions in a Task View

When defining Add , Copy Recursive , or Set Primary Parent actions in a Task View, administrators can filter records for these actions, but we need to improve this filter , not only compare value (equal) bul also equal/not equal to a specific valu...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Calculation list filtering by object type and/or state (as views)

If you have plenty calculations it's not easy to select only the ones applied to a specific object type, you need to scrool different pages. (the order by column, works only for a single page!). We'd like a filter like the one you implement for th...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Locked record could be easy identify and selected/escluded

Now when a user lock a record, the locked record are visible but can not be easy selected by a filter .... let access to a field to identify locked record in order to filter, export, report them
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Rebuild BLU columnar dictionaries and recompress data in BLU columnar tables

An engineered capability is required to automatically rebuild an optimal BLU columnar compression dictionary and recompress BLU columnar tables. A technique is needed to easily rebuild and recompress columnar tables like we have for adaptive compr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

WMLA Client Python Lib

Currently, WMLA has multiple ways to use and customers have a steep learning curve. WMLA REST API supports all the different CP4D versions and platforms. To reduce the learning curve and also reduce the workload to support different ways to use WM...
almost 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration