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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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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,

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  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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Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Title property for hyperlink

When using the hyperlink control with Visual Studio there is no property for the html title attribute. Title is enables the html mouseover option. In the current version when have to use an html control or a custom control for such basic functiona...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

TDF should support SSL/TLS LDAP. (Also known as LDAPS.)

Case: TS014229415 Opened September 2023. Closed as a future requirement (working as designed).
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show item labels for tree map visualization.

To create consistency between visualization chart properties it would make sense to include the same options in a tree map (similar to a pie/bar chart properties) i.e. to include the ability to toggle on and off show value labels. In addition, it ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

While capturing a Risk Event, system error appears requesting end user to refresh the page (APAR PH30431)

The system error impacts end users who may lose data captured and be required to do rework. This creates resistance to use of the system. Although the help text does guide the user to navigate this defect - it is not optimal.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extensions: Add support for shortcuts in a folder

When you add a folder to the left navigation menu via an extension and the "extension folder" contains shortcuts to other folders, the shortcuts will not work (nothing happens when the user clicks the folder shortcut). The folder shortcut only wor...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration