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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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MDX Snippets to be supported

Just like with TI Snippets, developers often times have a repository of MDX snippets that they use when building sets and views. Being able to upload these snippets and use them in a similar fashion to TI snippets would be very useful.
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Support OpenSSL

Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Not under consideration
700 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

Add Book Information to Workspace TM1 Session Context

Hi all, At the moment, when a user connects via Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), the TM1 session Context field includes valuable details such as: PAfE/Version (0); Excel/Version (x64, WorkbookName, WorksheetName) This information is extremely ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
8 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage Not under consideration
610 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration
437 VOTE

Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Not under consideration
539 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration