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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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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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More filtering options in categories search

Hi, could you please add more filtering options in categories view search? Currently user can only search top level categories without any properties.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Improve exports to Powerpoint on PA-Workspace

Export vers Powerpoint improved with 16:9 parameters and with custom mask (logo, image, police)
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

DataStage : Trino connector

We need a connector for Trino in InfoSphere Datastage as Trino is not supported officially by IBM. PMR No : TS016068863
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Display Workbench tabs on left hand side down the page

Is it possible to display workbench tabs down the page on left hand side instead of across the top of the viewer? Often the occasion when up to 15 to 20 tabs can be in use and navigation is very clunky, and more difficulty when trying to move rela...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
10 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted