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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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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.

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Copy\Paste from other sources into PAW Websheet

Allow copy/paste from other sources into the PAW Websheet. There is no PAW browser add-in, so there is no guarantee as to what that the TM1Web plugin does when used in combination with PAW functionality. We have spoken with PAW Development Manager...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

CLI command to export/import DS-objects in XML format

After developing new DataStage objects (or changing them), we have to manually export them in order to get them in XML Format. The only CLI functionality provided is istools, that Exports DS objects as ISX, which is not usable within a Control Ver...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQL WITH clause to work with only SELECT unlike other flavors of SQL like T-SQL which operates other DML operations. Just like how WITH simplifi...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Export as Text - View Definition Window

Currently we have a client that is doing ABC/Profitability where different stages of allocations occur. There are a number of different sub-processes that utilises customised views to enable the processing of each row in the caller process. For de...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Selection capabilities in PAW Modeller

I am finding the object tree in PAW Modeler difficult to use. It seems to have re-implemented some of the issues in Perspectives. What I would suggest is that instead of one continuous tree showing all types of objects, cubes, dimensions, etc, tha...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support required for Renaming Objects

As part of our developer self service for schema change approach, and new table a developer creates is added to a 'new objects' Db2 database - in an implicit tablespace. The DBA will subsequently come along and move the table to an explicit tables...
about 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Watson discards changes in Dialogue nodes done during the training - Possibility of team coworking on the same skill in one moment would make development faster and smoother

1. If one person in the team is training the assistant (adding user examples to Intents, adding Entities, or making other changes) and the assistant is processing them ("Watson is training" stripe in the "Try it" window), then no other team member...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration