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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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Object oriented building of report and visualization

Commonly, a report Object can be reused at creation within a new report. Nevertheless, it is just an inclusion with no link with the original piece of report.What is needed is to change this behaviour to an object oriented behaviour .Example : Rep...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD

PH30480 UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...)

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...) - It would be very usefull to select records that were just merged. The same way like with DELETE / UPDATE and INSTERT: SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (DELETE / UPDATE / INSERT)
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW dimension editor, option to load all members

Add a pop up notification that offers the ability to load all members into the editor, instead of loading members while you scroll. The scrolling and loading is not responsive enough for large dimensions. I would take the trade off of waiting for ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Recognize csv formatted file, even if the file extension is missing/wrong

CSV formatted files are central to inputting data into Cognos Dashboard Embedded. If a user creates or is provided with a file where the extension was left off, or different, Cognos Dashboard Embedded will not allow you to import it (e.g. consider...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Report within Portal Viewer

Would like the Interactive options inherent with Cognos ANalytics (like dynamic client side sorting and filtering) to be available through the Portal Viewers. I opened a helpdesk on it, and was told this was because they are two reporting interfac...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limited information available regarding failed export of the content store in the Admin Console:

There is very limited information available when an export of the content store in the admin console failed, even when the "trace" option is enabled in the job. It is when you run a job in IBM Cognos Administration > Configuration > Content ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Correct and Enhace Monitor Script - Purging logs

When below command is called via 'monitor.sh' performance collection script: >>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch $PURGE_HOURS $LOG_DIR -m -d <<< the '$LOG_DIR', is defined to call as "LOG_DIR=$MONITORDIR/$PMR_NUMBER/$DATE" i.e. its running th...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration