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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Folder Level Auditing Access Out of the Box

Currently out of the box Cognos audit data does not contain a clear and concise way to track user clicks at a folder level. We want to be able to easily track what folders a user has accessed out of the box. We want this solution without a complic...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes: MultiSelect Measures and change at once the Format for all measures selected.

in the Cube Designer UI : having the capabiliy to select multiple measures at the same time (multi-select with CTRL+Click for example) and change the FORMAT for all measure selected at the same time ( like the feature we have in Framework manager ).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clarify message DSNX905I to distinguish type of DB2 Procedure or Function abend

Allow for automation of rules to identify if a START PROCEDURE or START FUNCTION should be issued to respond to the outage.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include repair catalog in the redirected recover

It should not be necessary to explicitely run a repair catalog after running a redirected recover. The redirected recover should adjust the version information in the catalog itself.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request Cognos Features

1. We need to be able to limit the number reports a specific user can run at once. 2. We also need to limit how many of a specific report can run at once.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration