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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

PAW report URL - possibility to assign alias (instead of using URL)

Deploy a PAW report to production environment without changing the URL of the report? Background: Updates of reports that are created with design features are saved as Chrome favorites by many end users. Deploying the changes with import functiona...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Open cognos analytics notifications for external notifications via API

We would like to post notification from extranal applications to our cognos interface via APIs. We have integrated solution for Cognos and planning analytics with one common portal build in CA11 and we would like to push some PA notifications to t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort on lists - Cognos viewer

Some IBM Clients, like Banco do Brasil, need a functionality that sorts the data on list/crosstab columns on Cognos Viewer when generating a Report Studio HTML Report. Nowadays, it`s possible using Active Reports and Workspace, but it is also need...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

option to remove the localization from Report Filenames

at the moment you have no possibility to remote the localization from a Report Filename stored in FileSystem oder sent by mail. Exsample: Report1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.pdfReport1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.xlsx It would be nice,...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict number of parallel batch reports per User or Tenant

It should be possible to restrict the number of batch reports run in parallel by a user and/or in a multi-tenant environment per tenant. This could be general parameters for the batch report service like "Number of parallel processes per user" or ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Slider Widget speed

Current the Slider widget is not allowing time for the screen to fully render before moving to the next element in the subset on the slider. There are the following options:1 The slider waits until the screen fully renders before commencing the st...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration