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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Allow Exploration views to accomodate larger views to eliminate double scroll bars (minimum 60 columns vs current 30)

In retail we are often analyzing data by week. Currently the exploration view is only equipped to handle 30 columns with the view expanded to eliminate double scroll bars. When we were having an exploration with all 52 weeks we are left to have th...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OPL language enhancements : cannot slice with nested constraints on subTuples

I've been a happy user of OPL language, which has lots of wonderful features. However, there is one remaining recurrent issue in data modeling, which prevents some intuitive modeling. This is called "cannot slice with nested constraints on subTupl...
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

Commit data from PAfE (quick Report) from all the sheets at one time (Provided that a workbook contains more sheets)

Commit data from PAfE (quick Report) from all the sheets at one time (Provided that a workbook contains more sheets)
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Homepage Notifications/Logo Customization

Allow customization of the welcome page to include notifications to users about system uptime/downtime/batch process notifications, etc. Currently, we have several models which are connected to a single PAW production server, and we cannot provide...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW Turbo Integrator (TI)

Processes that use Process/source views that were created in the Rich Tier environment error out or don't load data properly because the current functionality skips Consolidated and Rule calculated values by default. This requires the view to be m...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Jupyter Notebook Read Data from package with prompt parameters

We are looking to read data from a package that contains query subjects with required prompt parameters due to potential data volume returned from source database. We are not currently able to read these data sources into a pandas dataframe in our...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
almost 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration