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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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Customized Font in Schema

Currently its possible to change Color, add Logo's and more via the customazation menu option. However change the font and size is not possible. Mine Customer has the explicit wish to change this as well to their Company standard Font and width.Pl...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CHCCLP encrypting password

If i run a CHCCLP script the password of the user is visible in the log, this is not desirable.(the password is in an include file)
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule Calculations

We would like the ability to schedule calculations. When they are set to auto-start it looks like calculations only run on an implicit save or new record. We're finding relatively dormant records are not having auto-started calcs run on them so we...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Multi-members selection in a context selector and show only the total in synchronized charts

In PAW, there is the possibility to synchronize charts with context dimension selectors. Selecting one member will show the data related to this member.Our customer needs to be able to select multiple members and show dynamically the total of the ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedSum

2 new consolidation functions ConsolidatedSum(flag-value, cube-name, element_1, element_2,… ); ConsolidatedSum calculates the sum value in a consolidation and returns a single value. I know that this is the same as not having a rule in place, bu...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Parameter to set REORG interrupt due to an unexpected wait

There are situations where a REORG utility can cause locks. A few weeks ago we suffered an episode of timeouts because a Reorg that was locking in the log phase. The Reorg was performing the consolidation of an ALTER DSSIZE in a UTS PBR. We didn't...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Disable and Enable Users

We currently have a certain number of users for our Planning Analytics Cloud Environment, during our budget cycle, we would have additional users entering their budget. Would like the ability to just pay for them on an as needed basis(typically 3 ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration