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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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Allow file:// links in PAW

Buttons in Workspace only accepts http:// links as valid hyperlink targets. It would be nice it the button also allowed us to enter file:// links.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic (Schedule) planned download of used licenses

The license information about the current licenses can currently only be exported manually. It would be helpful to export this information automatically or planned / scheduled.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch delimiter of the license information export file

It would be helpful if you could change the delimiter of the export file. By default it is the comma. However, there may be occurrences that the name of the login also contains a comma.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Ablitliy to overwrite values at consolidated level and drive to leaf element  in PAX

Within a Dynamic report (active form) published to PAW, have the ability to edit at an elevated level and have it break back down to lower levels. Would like this same functionality to be available when working with a dynamic report in PAX
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Formatting in exploration mode in PAX

Enable increased formatting options within PAX Exploration. Would like to see an increased set of style options or the ability to add custom options that apply to a given element name or certain conditions for a given cell.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ablility to plan in % spreads

To be able plan in % and have it spread down based on contribution instead of all values at the lower level getting the same keyed in % value.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

A tmp database created with the server, analogous to the /tmp file system

In Linux systems (and in all Unix flavors) there is a /tmp directory or better, a /tmp file system. Anyone can create a file or directory in there and, in Linux, it cleared at boot time. (Other flavors use a cron job to clear out unused files.) I ...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Incrementals are only kept 14 days, Full IC are kept 30 days, DSN pattern DBP.DB2.ICWKY* are kept 30 days. Current Modify does not support deleting the SYSCOPY rows. All are kept 30 days.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild indexes from index or table panel

We would like to be able to generate JCL for rebuilding one or more indexes from the index or table panel.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration