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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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Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Implement multiple warnings prior to altering the database schema in the system setup section. Additionally, provide the capability to revert to the previous database schema, enabling users to retrieve prior evaluations.

Utility: The significance lies in the fact that modifying the schema currently results in the loss of all prior evaluations, without an option for retrieval. This enhancement aims to safeguard time and projects from potential loss, particularly in...
12 days ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

PAfE to track PA-enabled Excel spreadsheets only

Threads/TM1top/The Session Monitor displays the PAfE version, Excel version, Excel workbook name, and Excel sheet/tab name of the current Excel workbook open by the user. Instead of displaying any Excel workbook open by the user, I believe it woul...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Submitted

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
5 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
22 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted