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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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Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes. As an example: we migrated our dasd from Mod 54’s to EAVs. The mod 54’s were being removed from the data center. In order to do this we had IBM remove the appliance data pools, upload a new JSON file...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

bsub fairshare of users

Some users use a script which spawns a lot scripts, say 1000 scripts, tosubmit jobs to LSF synchronously. So a lot of jobs from this user submittedinto LSF and other users can not submit the jobs into LSF promptly with themessages of "Can not conn...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reports>Intercompany report

1. If a company reports two rows with the same counterpart and account but different transaction currencies and the counterpart does not report anything, the report sum up the two amounts with different currencies and then creates a useless amount...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Optimization access paths currently used for SELECTs should also apply to UPDATEs (and DELETEs)

Currently, as I write a SELECT query with a correlated Sub-select (and no other predicates), I see that the optimization for that query uses a non-correlated sub-select and the query runs very fast. But, if I use exactly the same predicate, but wr...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Secure Gateway Special Character

Support ticket: TS000934521 The Secure Gateway Portal built into PAA does not support special characters ("\" or ",") when specifying server name. Can this be updated to accept the characters?
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration