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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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An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: book shortcut

Due to security/permissions reasons we sometimes need to place one book to multiple folders in Reports & Analysis. However, editing of each copy separately is not sustainable. So, we propose to implement shortcuts for books. Origin book would ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show the progress and cancel option for a TI process in between while the process is running

We have created books in Planning Analytics Workspace and each book contains buttons which are linked tpo TI Process in backend. When a button is clicked TI Process starts executing there is no progress bar or anything shown neither there is an op...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Request for RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL REFERENCE with SAMPLE to update RTS TOTALROWS

Recovery to PIT or to current, and non-standard recovery methods such as DSN1COPY or DF/SMS dataset DUMP/RESTORE from flashcopy backups can leave TOTALROWS set to 0, NULL or invalid values. Trying to run something like a REBUILD index relies on TO...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Define _as_of_date within Dashboard itself

Currently, if you want to change the date of the current day, you have the option to use the "as_of_date" parameter. However, when working with a dashboard and needing to change the current day, you have to navigate to the "My parameter» and modi...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Column Headers in a PAW View

When you have a 2 dimensional view in PAW, we would like to group the elements displayed in the columns to make the display more readable. The aim is to display this grouped name above the column elements (simulating something similar to stacking ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exclusion of HTML navigation elements in webcrawl

As users of WDS are currently not able to use SDU on crawled web documents, it is impossible to use the field definition and exclusion function WDS provides to exclude unwanted results from the index. In our case, website navigation and footers cr...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration