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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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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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Improve blackout window scheduling

Improve blackout window scheduling to allow select day/week of the month. In example my need is to set a blackout window for a set of databases on the 3rd Saturday of each Month @ 4 AM.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Functionality already exists

Change font size and color for value labels in dashboards

There is no ability to change the size and color of the font for value labels in dashboards. The font is fairly small and does not change with resizing.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Functionality already exists

Enhanced statistics, e.g., for entire table dataset

The statisticin WKC refers only to the first 5,000 rows and is therefore useless for evaluating the entire dataset in a table. There should be more selection options, such as statistics on the entire table or special selections (e.g., statistics o...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Support for Hypervisor Nutanix AHV

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) is quite widely used and some customers running DataStage on win would like to deploy it on AHV (currently 5.2.0). Other IBM products (eg. BAW are certified on Nutanix AHV) and it should be important to have it t...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Option to hide tabs/menus with embedded PAW workbooks

Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.60 introduced the embed parameter, allowing workspace workbooks to be embedded inside an iframe. Using path: http[s]://<pawhost>[:<pawport>]/?perspecitve=dashboard&path=/shared/mybook&embed=true...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Update fields after copying objects

Often times when copying objects there are fields that have to be reset. One example would be updating the status field after copying an object. Another use case would be to update fields after copying templates from the library.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 5 Functionality already exists

Separate Mandater/user privileges for Intercept vs Monitoring models/rules

Providing access to Model writing provides access to both intercept or case creation models. Would like these unlinked.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Functionality already exists

Selectable storage class for Storage Volumes

Cloudpak 4 Data in 3.5+ allows users to create (user) storage volumes from the UI. This feature has three options, one is 'external NFS'. This request is only applicable for this alternative. Technically this creates a PV and a matching PVC on the...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide/disable folder delete permissions without removing write permissions

Problem statement: In Cognos 11, a user with either the Professional Author or Business Author role can delete the entity folder for their company. These users have write permissions to the entity specific folder since they should be able to creat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists