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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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Dashboard task chart should have greater variety of colours

The 8.0.0.3 dashboard chart uses only the 'neutral' colours on the grey/blue spectrum. When we have >4 workflows the colours start repeating themselves, which distracts from the chart. Suggest these charts are configured to use the full set o...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Externalize the IFI abend count

We would like a method to externalize the IFI abend count so we can be proactive about identifying IFI abends and prevent IFI and the monitor trace being disabled. Alternatively there could be a msg externalized when the count gets to various thre...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The Spark job should use the mount_path attribute of the storage volume by default

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Include jdbc oracle string in Search properties file to allow Failover options

Currently, in the Search server properties files, there is option to mention only DB Host name and we can enter only 1 Host name. It would be helpful to add a failover string like in aurora.properties file where we can mention the database.url ins...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 3 Not under consideration

Adjustable scaling of axis in all PAW charts

All charts in PAW should allow for (automatic or manual) adjustment of the axis. Line charts currently auto-scale to fit/suit the data held in the chart, however e.g. bar charts do not. This is something that has been noticed by a client and they ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration