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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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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Each window should contain links to corresponding documentation

IBM controls each window that is displayed in each Cloud Pak for Data service, and each documentation page. Users would benefit from having a direct link to the documentation that will help them understand/use the product.
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to check storage performance

After moving to the cloud, in particular, managed service a user loses the ability to verify storage performance. There should be a stored procedure that allows such a possibility. Basic metrics, like IOPS, bandwidth, etc. Such a service would bui...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

PAW Action Button Process Search Capability

When using Action button in PAW to run a process there is no existing way to search for it. We have to scroll down and select it manually. It would be really helpful if we can get a feature to search the process. I'm attaching sample screenshot fo...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Color Consistancy in graphs in Reporting

In Reporting we make use of graphs. In a report we have multiple graphs on category, but the colors of the bars do not match in the graphs. We need the colors to be consistent, so every category has the same color in the same graph on the report. ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Documentation update regarding DataStage Roles and Capabilities

Every DataStage team in the world needs a quick reference to the DataStage roles/permissions/capabilities which is easily understandable and comprehensive at a glance. There isn't one in the manual, it's just a bunch of overly-complicated text. So...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Dimension Editor

Ability to to do a "save as" with an existing dimension as well as set the order the elements.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted