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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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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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Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Table space page size during Redirected Restore

Hi,I kindly request for having the ability to change the table space page size during a redirected restore operation.Thanks
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Drop STP SQL with dependency of other STP SQL type NATIVE

We have a general purpose StoredProcedure (STPX1) that is called by other native StoredProcedures (STPA1, STPA2, STPA3, etc) that have CALL statements to STPX1, If I need DROP the STP STPX1 (for recreate later) I receive the error -478 for depende...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

PAW Text-Box/Title with dynamic Content from Filter

Reports/Dashboard are more readable if tiles point to the version and period shown in the report. "Revenue 2020 for Company A" could be an example.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Specify Application Trace

Customer is complaining that he is unable to perform traces on DB2 threads coming from the distributed side. These threads arrive all to DB2 with the same plan name ('DISTSERV'), and the only way to tell them apart is to use the Correlation ID (CO...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Allow buttons/rich response as part of Option Response Type for Intercomm

Typically, we can adjust the Option Response Type to be a button or list etc for responses on the chat. However, support team confirmed with development team that rich response is not available for Intercom. This request is to impletement support ...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration