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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Secure BQ CDC service-account-key

Is there a way to configure a secure way to retrieve the service-account-key.json file from key vault? This is the requirement for our production environment setup. Enter BigQuery private key json file [/data/install/IIDR/GCP_BIGQUERY/gcp_connecti...
10 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

PAW: allow multiple Workbenches to be open at the same time

When you have multiple projects or activities saved as individual Workbenches, you can only have one open at a time. Cannot reference other Workbenches or open more than one simultaneously, so have to continuously open, save, copy, screenshot, clo...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow formatting of calculated and read-only cells

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) by default calculated cells are shown with a green background, and read-only cells are shown with a gray background. This feature is very useful because it stops users from trying to enter values in calculated...
28 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dock images to the right/left/top/bottom

Our logo / an image always needs to be on the right side of the screen. Please see the attached file for more details.
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Needs more information

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 8 Future consideration

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration