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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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Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sliding window for the monitoring page resource usage

Currently, monitoring ages do not contain a sliding window for the resources data usage.There is available last 12h, last 24h, last 7 days and "all data available".It would be very useful to be able to search a specific time range.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add new Status for stopping Databases that will be Dropped or decomissioned

When you work for several accounts it's not easy to know whether a DB or TS has been stopped on purpouse or just due to some previous error. I think that some new status would be great, some Advisory STOP, something that doesn't allow people to us...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support NamedRange when using TM1Web URL API

Referring to this feature: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=api-selecting-dimension-title-elements-websheet-objects Currently on TM1Web (aka Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Service), the URL API supports Title_S#-R#-C#=ele...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to use query subjects with prompt macros in cognos analytics dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customized PAW books theme

The background themes in PAW books have limited predefined colour options. The themes should be able to be customized on the basis of required RGB colour combination or image. There are times when clients want to use a different colour or image ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add more granularity to commands -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE

Summary: Enable a new keyword PROFILEID(list-of-profile-IDs) for the -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE commands.----Currently, the activation of profiles can be performed by a -START PROFILE command, which in turn activates all profiles that have S...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration