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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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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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Enhancement of security administration of capability Upload Files

In CA11, we can only administrate which group, role and user are granted or denied to use Capability Upload Files (Via Administration Console > Security > Capabilities > Upload Files). More permission details to secure per group, role and...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Interface between CPLEX and .Net CORE 5 on LINUX

We are developing applications using .Net CORE 5. This is a great language to develop solution on either Windows or Linux. We have no issues using CPLEX with Windows as we have the cp_wrap_cpp_dotnet2010.dll running but we miss a Linux version of ...
almost 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

Consolidating multiple notifications over a limited period of time

We need to have functionality to consolidate e-mail notifications to users (i.e. consolidating multiple notifications over a limited period of time (e.g. 24 hours) addressed to a single user into one ‘combined’ (e-mail) notification)
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration

Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Centralized definition of PAW elements and objects

There should be a centralized definition of PAW elements and objects, e.g. size, colour, look, … of a button, a view/table or a workbook. These definitions should be applied when creating an according object. And if you change these definitions, a...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Dashboards: Directionality of filtering between widgets

The interactive filtering via widget connections are too inflexible for our purposes. Currently, charts can be assigned to specific connections, but no directionality can be defined for the filter relationships. With directionality, e.g. several K...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Planning Analytics - Cascading Dimension Selection

Being able to define cascading selection in the PA Workspace. We would like to have an improvement to either use a subset related on another dimension selection, or being able to use variables in the MDX statement to refer to another dimension sel...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration