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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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Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Rule Trace to include line of code

Add the feature to show what Line Number the rule of code is in the Trace feature. This would just be a great convenience when troubleshooting calculations.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL does not support Reject Link in DataStage on CP4D.

PostgreSQL does not support Reject Link in DataStage on CP4D.
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

better control while removing parameters

TS013848268 fix allows to remove multiple parameters. It is easy to make the mistake while selecting multiple variables across multiple pages. Request to have at least a confirmation list of the parameters which are going to be removed before comm...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add git support to CPLEX Optimization Studio

We request to add on-prem GitHub integration into IBM CPLEX Optimization Studio to version control OPL models, datasets, and options files. We’d like to add functionality to clone a repository, commit/sync to a repository, to create/switch between...

Allow the transfer/ copy of private views to different users

Public views become too crowded if are used by different departments in the same company. It is relevant and helpful to have a list of department/ standard views available for all interested users. In order to be able to have this list in an effic...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans: Subtasks

Currently there is only the option to create a task and not subtasks. There is a need for a task to have subtasks, as well as the subtasks to be assigned to different contributors / approvers then the parent task.
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration