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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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Snapshot from Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel

The ability to snapshot a cube view while working in PA for Excel is no longer available. The only option to go from the viewer to Excel is by exporting to one of the report formats. Although useful in many use cases, this is sometimes not realist...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Default settings for PAW environment

Currently if the client has custom settings, these colours/fonts/sizes needs to be applied to each widget (taking time and a lot of maintenance). There is also a risk that if users create ad-hoc dashboards, that they use different settings than th...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Efficient unloading from external tables to regular tables

As the focus has been shifting towards ELT and not ETL we would like to use the parquet ingest method on the NPSaaS. From the source to parquet, which is ingested through to external tables. All these features work good for now! However, now we ha...
16 days ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Error Log for Processes should open in own tab rather than a pop up

Currently when you view Error Logs for Processes it only displays in a pop up window. If you have a couple of errors to investigate you have to keep selecting it. It would be more benefical if it were to open in a tab similar to the way that the S...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup size limitation

Problem Description The backup.ps1 script, used to backup PAW in Windows Server, uses the compress-archive PowerShell command. This command uses the System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive API to compress files, and the API limits the maximum file size...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

BigQuery scanner missing to bring Column data type value in to Manta Flow viewer

Data Type column is most validated item in data governance spectrum and missing that would be a big issue in our enterprise
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Option to add an accelerator to a HA AOT group

When adding a new accelerator pairing to a DB2 system, we currently need to drop/create an AOT to have it defined on this new pairing with the same name. During this you need to handle e.g. copying of data and essentially take an outage on the exi...
5 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Ability in Planning Analytics Workspace Local to convert the Timezone of Server Log

As of now, PAWorkspace Local - Modelling workbench do not convert the Tm1 server Logs correctly when the tm1 server log is configured to produce the logs in Local Server Time stamp. The product should be able to find the Tm1 server log files are i...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted