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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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Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Bullet charts need to incorporate both time and versions

Bullet charts should be able to show how a particular metric is tracking over time towards a specific target. At the moment this is not readily achievable in PAW. In the example screenshot attached, it is not possible to track actual revenues to a...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Burst functionality is not available for reports with Crosstab & Charts

Our reports have only Crosstab and charts, adding a list does not help. Please let us know if we can burst the report with only crosstab & charts
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Jupyter Note book

If a run a report that has jupyter notebook pins in it as a PDF I don't see the visualizations. If I switch to run as HTML, I do see the visualizations. The report with the pins from a jupyter notebook should work the same where outputting to HT...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extensions: Add support for shortcuts in a folder

When you add a folder to the left navigation menu via an extension and the "extension folder" contains shortcuts to other folders, the shortcuts will not work (nothing happens when the user clicks the folder shortcut). The folder shortcut only wor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Wrap Dims in PAX

Hi, my DB has 21 dimensions. Therefore in Planning Analytics Excel that means my users do not have a FULL view of all the selections in all the dimensions in their exploration view. They have to click left and right in the Overview window pane and...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Add SSL certs

"Plain text" connections to Informix are only encrypted if using SSL. The manuals and internet only explain "self assigned certification" well enough to implement. To make matters worse the "certs" expire and then you have to wipe everything out, ...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

QMF for WEBSPHERE - BIDI SUPPORT REQUIRED as in QMF for WORKSTATION

We have many tables that has columns in Hebrew (in addition to the English columns) In order to see them correctly, a BIDI support is required ( bidirectional text layout transformations). This is already implemented in QMF WORKSTATION but not in ...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration