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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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Allow the user to filter using custom fields on the search screen

Custom fields are very useful for adding information to data assets in a structured way that adapts well to the particular structure of companies. Because of this, we believe that being able to filter assets and information by these fields is some...
18 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release
507 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to Schedule calculations

Scheduling calculations in combination with auto advance feature would open doors for a plethora of use cases.
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Inhance Readme in project as guide for new collaborators

The Readme in the project overview allows to guide collaborators new to a project as widely used in Github. However users miss it easily due to its inferior location and small size in the Overview page. Then they can not directly read it in the Ov...
7 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

To support the creation of a Db2 range-partitioned target table if the source table is a Db2 range-partitioned table and the target table does not exist when creating a Q Subscription.

According to the current design, when the target table does not exist, Q Replication can automatically create the target table based on the source table schema when creating a Q Subscription. However, Q Replication always creates a normal table, r...

Data exported should be restricted to the Form selected for both Reported Values & Journals

When exporting data via Transfer>Export Data, we can restrict accounts for the data exported for Reported Values via the selected Form. However the accounts are not restricted for any Manual Journals. In our scenario, we are exporting from a da...
25 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration