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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.

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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Unable to lock GA company (Group Journals)

User is still able to pass group journals in GA company although the status has been changed to "READY"
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Text orientation

Text orientation is not supported from Excel, so when you publish a sheet and view it via PAW the text loses its formatting. This means I have to make the columns extra wide just so the headings are readable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

For drop downs: Dependent values should be automatically removed when person unticks the related drop-down value form another field

This would benefit all the users who are using multiselect drop-down lists, which include additional dependent fields. This would significantly improve the data quality. This is especially needed for the financial fields, however useful for other ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Simple folders without settings

When creating a folder you must decide whether digressions are allowed or not. To simplify the top level dialog structure is would be nice to be able to organise nodes in folders without these settings (they would act simply as containers which ha...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

Improve Various Components of the Current Scheduler Adlgorithm

Currently, though the Scheduler supports threads, the processing is not a thread per bucket, but rather a threads that are used on a per bucket basis and buckets are still handled serially, which has led us to Host Match times around 400 seconds. ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration

display workbook path on all PAw reports

we think it would be beneficial to add the display workbook path on all PAw reports. business users often send us screen shots of reports but we can identify the path of where the report is located.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration