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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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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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PAW: Selector Widget search results to limit results to subset elements

To help users search and select the correct dimension members, we create selector widgets using cube dimensions outside of the cube view. This allows easier navigation without the clutter. It allows a user to easily search dimensions on the rows a...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

White-Out Conditional Formatting in Workspace

A client for a project I was recently working on requested consolidated custom reports to minimize the total number of reports they had to maintain. With that being said, the client asked that on one of the reports, we create custom conditional fo...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Selecting a member in a hierarchy on a filter in a dashboard should select all members rolling up to it

I have a dashboard created on a planning analytics (TM1) data source. I add a hierarchy from a dimension in the data source to the filter pane. This is a 3-level hierarchy. I open the levels below the top level (i.e., Level1 based upon planning an...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use the previous action as a condition (New Watson Assistant Actions)

It would be very useful to have a native button/condition that can detect which was the action of the last executed step (in a series of steps). Imagine that, from Action 1, you are jumping to another action/sub action Action 2. In Action 2 you ...
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

User Management: Must support AD groups and role mapping.

AD groups should be leading in access granding, not WSL process. LDAP should do autherization and authentication.Once LDAP group is setup, it should be respected and not allow re-authentication without check LDAP group status. If LDAP policy is de...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Cluster Failback feature

We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New system user creation, password reset and configuration change activities

Our pain point is that we need to perform re-deployment activity for container{pod} with downtime approx 15-20 min for specific use cases. These are as follows: 1. Users. Creation of new system user and resetting of existing user's password. 2. ...
about 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration