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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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Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Change of skipping rows rule, when calculation is in use.

Right now skipping rows doesn't work, when in use are f.e. two elements, where one of them is equal zero and a value of a second one is different than zero. When calculation in Workspace is executed and value is equal to zero, also when we see an ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Backups to use temp dbspaces with most closlely matching page size.

For backups store the before images it temporary dbspaces which most closely match the pagesize of the dbspace being backed up. Presumably this would be more efficent. E.g. If backing up a 16k dbspace prefer putting before images in a 16k,8k or 4k...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Text Risk List Entries Having Option for Case Sensitive/Ignore Cases

We have clients who import attributes that are stored as text (Merchant Name) into their risk lists and the file they are importing comes through as all capital letters due to how their internal database stores the data. In order to account for th...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted