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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).


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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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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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Recent Data Sources for Reports and Dashboards

We miss the functionality of seeing recently used data sources when starting the creation of a new dashboard or report. The user will always need to navigate to the proper location and select the data source. This functionality was available in Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort order of workbooks

In the PAW portal you can sort books by name, last changed, created date, the problem is that the selected setting does not stick the next time users log in.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos integration with Spark

Support Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

User list management

Hi Team, Would like to get the latest users being added to the system. We see that currently we are unable to get the users based on account creation date and hence fail to get the details of users who were recently added .If the feature can be im...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

SAP Connector - SAML Authentication

A client is interested in using the SAP Connector for Planning Analytics. However, they require the connector to authenticate via SAML. SAML is similar to SSO auth. This is priority for them with no alternative.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Sending a reply from MQ-Listener even when the MSGTYPE is not REQUEST

Currently it is possible to change the REPLY-Queue and REPLY-QueueManager via StoredProcedures which are started by the MQ-Listener if the Message was sended with MessageType = REQUEST. But it is not possible to send a REPLY if the MessageType is ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Security in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

Problem: Currently IBM PAW has a vide security access. Consumers and Analysts have access to both tiles - Application and Plans and Reports and Analysis, therefore they are able to see the list of all plans (Application and Plans tile), books (rep...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Provide a Prometheus exporter for Informix

Many organizations use unified approach to collecting, storing and visualizing metrics from various sources using at least one of the few established platforms of which Prometheus+Grafana are probably the most prominent. It would be very beneficia...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration