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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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Adapt PAW to corporate identity

Regarding «corporate usability» PAW should provide a way to adapt the start page to corporate identity of a company, e.g. you should be able to replace this IBM Watson banner by a company graphic or place a company logo somewhere.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Centralized definition of PAW elements and objects

There should be a centralized definition of PAW elements and objects, e.g. size, colour, look, … of a button, a view/table or a workbook. These definitions should be applied when creating an according object. And if you change these definitions, a...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Responses from action buttons in PAW/PAfE

PAW action buttons should provide a confirmation like “do you really want to… Yes/No” or at least the option to activate such a confirmation dialog if needed. And in a similar way messages from Turbo Integrator processes and especially the result ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Formula-based MAX_QUERYDEGREE settings.

MAX_QUERYDEGREE allows to specify the maximum degree of parallelism for a query. The setting of ANY is usually to aggressive for typical Db2 SAP systems. Specifying an absolute value has the disadvantage of having to adjust the parameter for every...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

My Parameters should also work with Dashboards

My parameters is superb functionality that works with reports and many customers would benefit from it. Unfortunately it is not widely used. This is partly because it is not possible to use My Parameters with Dashboards, Stories and Exploration.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Enhance the workflow information to auto refresh

If the user assignee changes on the record, the workflow information does not auto refresh unless the user selects the "Refresh" icon.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration