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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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  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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Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Submitted

Character return within text boxes

When using the Text box tool, especially when typing a lot of text, you need to add another text box to get a new line, and set the Box Type to Block. Having the ability to create a new line with return would speed up the process significantly.
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Format Manager - Copy/Paste Format from one cube view to another

We need the ability to create a 'standard' format in the 'format manager' for a cube view and apply it across pre-existing cube views. Manually updating pre-existing reports with the new capabilities provided in the format manager is extremely tim...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Hide Public Filters

There should be a way to hide public filters from a grid view. Filters used in task views do not always need to be displayed to a user so these should have the option to be hidden. Controlled via a group access rather than individual user or enabl...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Support REORG for DEFINE NO

I have heard, in various IBM presentations (Haakon at IDUG Valencia, John Lyle at CCDB2) talking about Db2 Vnext, the statement "no migration to vnext if you have 6 byte RBA/LRSN or non-UTS tablespaces". This if fine unless you happen to have old ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Under review
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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Default settings for PAW environment

Currently if the client has custom settings, these colours/fonts/sizes needs to be applied to each widget (taking time and a lot of maintenance). There is also a risk that if users create ad-hoc dashboards, that they use different settings than th...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
13 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted