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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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Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Rest API Native View Skip Consolidations

The native view entity object of the rest api does not include the skip consolidations property. This complicates things when copying native views with the rest api. I realize architect/perspectives will be deprecated at some point and native view...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

File Management in PAW

In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer something like a file explorer in PAW to upload different types of files so that every user can download them...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drilltrough - View Report as Excelsheet

Our Cognos Team is now digging into dashboards and would like to enhance the dashboards drilltrough behaviour. When doing a drilltrough from a dashboard to a report, the resulting report will always be opened and displayed as a HTML page.Although ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable consistent export - implement MVCC

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over 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Support for migrating reports in a multitenant environment

In a multi-tenant Cognos Analytics on Cloud environment, it is not feasible to migrate reports from one environment to another using the tools currently available. The import and export tools are only present in Cognos Administration, and copy the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy drill through definition

In current functionality of drill through definition, author needs to repeat the drill through definitions to all the required elements even if the target report and parameters are exactly the same. Authoring interface should provide an option to ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A clean Environments selector list for IBM cloud environments

Hello, Every single day I need to select multiple environments from the IBM PA Home page (https://www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com/). My list is such that there are almost 20 environments, and it will only grow. In a support ticket (TS014673742...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REPORT RECOVERY - new syntax requested to externalise just the image copy and log datasets

REPORT RECOVERY provides the CURRENT and SUMMARY keywords but even for these options the job output is either very verbose (Unit of Recovery, SYSCOPY entries, Archive log datasets, volume numbers for the LOG datasets etc) or too little (just the v...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration