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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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Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

PA Workspace: Resize and position items using percents or pixels

Currently the size and position of objects in Workspace can only be done by drag and drop, which is not very accurate. This makes it hard to create a uniform appearance. Therefore it would be better to be able to Resize and position items using pi...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to set PAW sheet or widget to auto-refresh data periodically

We have received interest in "real-time" capability. While we are able to schedule data processes in the background to simulate real-time data updates, the front-end is a limiting factor in displaying this data. It would be useful to be able to se...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Motio PI in the Cognos Administration GUI

with release version Cognos Analytics 11.1 Motion Pi is also delivered for use. It would be nice if Motio PI will be integrated in the cognos administration console.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Websheets: Expand/collapse of grouped columns and rows (Excel grouping)

In websheets it would be useful, if the Excel function of grouping columns or rows would be supported in PA Spreadsheet Services. In this case, grouped columns or rows could be expanded and collapsed on demand.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Be able to add data security to uploaded files

Be able to add data security to uploaded files: in some cases when uplaoded files get a more official status (like uploaded targets for sales reps or budget data for accounts), you want to be able to limit the access to these uploaded files like y...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unsupported Browser Version Warning Pop-up

There should be a pop up message that tells the user they are using an unsupported browser version and that some features may not work as intended, especially on the trial and cloud versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration