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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.

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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Improve Ontape Point-in-Time Restores for Tables

The archecker tool can be used for point-in-time restores of table data from Level 0 Informix backups in conjunction with whatever logs were created after the Level 0 backup. However, if an organization does one Level 0 backup per week, then they ...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Applications and Plans: Approver email link takes user to Contributor tab

When an Approver gets an email to Approve a task, the email link generated takes the user to the Contributor tab. This seems to be the case where the approver is part of the contributor and approver groups assigned to the relevant task. 1. Email s...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Applications and Plans: Overview Visualizations

Carhartt Business users would like to have visualisations of the Overview tab incorporated to easy track & view the status of their tasks. Included in this, a status visualisation showing only the tasks that they are assigned to. For example, ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Need API-driven repository sync against Git providers

Need version control - driven sync against CP4D files and assets
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Introduce a parametric filter in calculation

When you have to select Input field you can find it in a related obj or in a Preference ... but when you try to filter the related records by an enumerate filed, you can only select one or more “specific value” BUT YOU CAN NOT FILTER record where ...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Dimension Editor Index Availability

In order to convert from Perspectives to PAW for Development, the Dimension Editor should have the ability to display element indexes and to update them easily. In Perspectives, you can easily see the Index in the dimension editor through the Prop...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

WatsonX for IBM i

An generative AI LLM helping write code for RPGLE would be huge! Codeium and CoPilot are nice, but you would think that IBM could come up with a better product!