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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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Auto adjust of rows and columns width on enable word wrap

most occasions business wants to review the balances of P&L and want to explain the variances. this becomes extremely difficult in the pre- PAW 79 version as long comments are difficult to view. as PAW 79 has introduced word wrap it is expecte...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support of IBM DB2 Data Server Driver Package (instead of DB2 Data Server Client)

Support of the different DB2 Data Server Driver Packages instead/in addition to DB2 Data Server Client. The big advantage is, that the Driver Packages are much smaller and also easier to install. Also they don't need any additional DB2-User.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

OMPE batch reporting does not produce msgs that allow to identify missing IFCIDs that prevent OMPE from producing reports

OMPE batch reporting does not produce msgs that allow to identify missing IFCIDs for certain reports (in this case, there are just msgs that not enough virtual storage is available - FPEU0020E UNABLE TO ALLOCATE VIRTUAL STORAGE. FPEU0100S DGOABLOG...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Group level credential mapping

Information Server admin console or Command line interface does not have a feature to credential map IIS group to engine credentialing ID. Please develop at least CLI command to credential map IIS group to engine user. This would allow all group u...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Advanced Security Option and Infosphere Information Server

This request is to establish a clear definition on what is supported with Oracle Advanced Security Option (OAS) and InfoSphere Information Server. Network level encryption is now available to all Oracle environments to use freely to have secure co...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

OPL solve progress dialog combined objective number format

Small cosmetic issue in OPL solve progress dialog. The number for thecombined objective doesn't have commas for the thousands. Theindividual goal values are formatted correctly. See attachedscreenshot.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Is a defect

Propose VarChar - lenght 20 by default instead of char 5

In IDE, in Data Perspective, when adding a column, propose VARCHAR by default instead of CHAR which is restrictive.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Include Java Web Start capability into the product by default

The Java Web Start (JWS) code example has improved usability and administration considerably in the enterprise context, especially where applications are updated frequently. Without JWS new versions need to be distributed manually to all users and...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration