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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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Auto fit of PAW objects

Auto fit of the view of PAW objects- charts, cubes doesn't work.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot table

We need the ability to to somehow configure planning analytics (for excel) to show sub totals for the consolidations for selected dimensions in the rows? To be more precise: Let's assume we selected two dimensions in the rows and want to see the s...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rolling Log daily for GNM Distributed Search

To allow rolling log daily
about 1 year ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to get an entry in audit db when report is failed to send an emails

Hi, we have logging enabled to both file and database configured. we deployed the Audit database and successfully logging to that database. If a report is to be emailed to a user and that email fails, we do not get that entry in the Audit database...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 2 Not under consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAx - MDX Utility

There are user reports when we try to refresh the sheet it prompts "failed to refresh, Do you want to continue with MDX utility". If yes click on ok it goes ahead and but it comes every time we refresh, We tries saving that as well but prompt come...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration