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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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Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to delete obsolete files

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to clean up unused or obsolete files.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Create View which saves under 'Views'

I would like to be able to have parity with Architect with regard to creating views and storing them under the 'views' section of the content tree. When you expand a cube in Planning Analytics Workspace, then right click 'views' in the content tre...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Radial graph - Change back to old settings for text

In the old version of PAW the radial graph shows the detail of the indicator and data. On the new experience, this info is not shown unless we greatly enhance the size of the graph. We wish to go back to the first graph appearance for better user ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in Emails

Hi, We would like to have the ability to remove the option of attaching report outputs in the emails generated from Cognos system in Cognos Analytics product. This ability was available in Cognos 10 by updating the ui_hide element in one of the sy...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration