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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Provide Spanish language, Mexico locale for data formatting and report language.

Mexico uses points to express decimal separators, the same convention as the United States. This, of course, is critical for banking applications and regulations. We currently face problems because our Mexico clients need to configure OpenPages in...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Planned for future release

Drive Explorer needs to be able to unzip 7zip files

Our backups for Planning Analytics are created using 7zip, however we are currently unable to unzip these from within Drive Explorer. So with the decommissioning of Remote Access to the server, we would have to download these files, unzip them, th...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Allow formatting of calculated and read-only cells

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) by default calculated cells are shown with a green background, and read-only cells are shown with a gray background. This feature is very useful because it stops users from trying to enter values in calculated...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Search cube/dimension/TI reference in cube rules/TIs

When trying to maintain a large Application, some sections may cease being in operation, having been superceded or no longer required, but in order to clean up cubes/dimensions/TIs no longer used, there's no easy way to determine if they are still...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

trim_char_to_varchar feature for FlexRep

Hi we have requirement to replicate data from db2 to cockroach db. db2 we have char data type columns and respective columns in cockrachdb are varchar. So we would need to have trim_char_to_varchar system parameter at the datastore level in FlexRe...
18 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release

Explain on Dynamic sql statement

Hello Team, We have installed DB2 ADMIN TOOL V13.1 in to our environment. We would not able to see the option available for explain on dynamic sql statement. We would like you to integrate explain on dynamic sql statement with ADMIN TOOL will help...
10 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Bulk edit capability for categories

Content admins have a need to update certain properties/relationships/parent category of a set of categories in bulk; example case is to move a list of categories from one parent category to another in bulk
19 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release