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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Mechanism is required to clean up spark volume efficiently

We have found a correlation between the transitory errors and storage space used for spark volume, we have to manually clean up the spark volume to get rid of the issue. Manually clean up is not recommended in PROD by Anthem customer, moreove we d...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Use Custom Fonts

We(implementation partner) have a request from Customer to be able to modify fonts used within the Openpages UI especially on the login pages and Dashboard. System should allow Selection of custom fonts as part of a theme to conform to organizatio...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Retain indentations in hierarchy when exported from tm1web

When a cube view containing a dimension hierarchy is viewed from perspectives and this view with hierarchy is snapshotted out to excel, the indentations in the hierarchy are retained and the hierarchy looks as it did in the cube view. When this sa...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make changes in the Informix backup process using onbar

Hi,i am using onbar utility to take backup of 4TB database using 12 threads and it took 8-9 hours for complete 0 level . i feel IBM needs to make changes in the Informix backup process. Whenever backup of a dbspace is in progress and if that dbspa...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

REST API support to collect unrelated event and triggers from NPS appliance and containers.

We are looking for REST API support which can deliver all uncorrelated events for appliance and NPS databases with the attributes like event id, type, start/stop dates, severity, description and etc in the form of JSON body, Which can also directl...
almost 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Not under consideration

Ability to import notebooks to access functions when running a notebook as a job

Within the JupyterLabs IDE users are able to use a package like https://pypi.org/project/import-ipynb/ to import local notebooks and access the functions etc within. This does not function when notebooks are run as Jobs. Scenario: Notebook A impor...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Mounting Shared drives with restrictive permissions

A way to mount shared drives (CIFS shares) in a capacity that utilises each users existing permissions on the remote share. Currently the way that we this is set up for CP4D (3.0.1) is utilising defined account credentials that are stored in a sec...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: More flexibility in assigning colors

Currently the sequence of colors in the palette determines the selected color per chart element. It would be great, if a user could flexibly assign colors from the palette to individual elements. The default could be the sequence of the palette an...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration