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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:


Search existing ideas

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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A way to see who is logged in to PAW

If you have planned a PAW downtime for maintenance and you want to check if there are still users logged in, you have no way to do so. You can check the threads of a database, but this is not feasible when you have multiple databases. Regarding "c...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Save to Any Network Location when Scheduling Cognos Report

Currently in Cognos Analytics we only have the option to save a report as XLS, PDF, etc, to any network location when running the report interactively. When scheduling and saving a report to XLS we're limited to what network location we've specifi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Mandatory fields and attachments in plan tasks.

We are using the plans feature in Planning Analytics Workspace to submit KPI results that goes through an approval cycle. We are trying to create a data validation rule that prevents cells to be left empty, so we can be sure that the end users put...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Data Table enhancements

Like what is in Data Tables as a start, but there is functionality missing from them. I can't change the order of grouping, i.e. say I want the current biennium to show in the first row, no way to do this. Filter is lacking, it needs a deselect an...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Generalized code assistant RAG use case trainable for multiple languages

Multiple IBM clients have approached me with a request to have a generalized watsonx Code Assistant that combines the existing Granite-code models with a RAG partner use case. Ability to fine tune a granite-code model such that it has the latest i...

PAW - Subset behavior

PAW can only refer to an element name of a subset and not to index . If in a paw book we use a named subset that presents the current month , for example MAR from a subset that contains MAR FEB JAN if the next month we update the subset with APR,M...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Revamp Event Studio User Experience based on Carbon Design

Cognos Analytics User Experience has been revamped based on carbon design in 11.2, however the Event Studio tool has not been updated since 10.2.x version. We do not show event studio during our prospective customer presentations, because of how o...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Ability to save Dashboard/Story for offline use

Ability to save, export or otherwise consume a Cognos Analytics dashboard or story while disconnected from the Cognos server. I know this has been declined in the past but I continue to get asked for this in pre-sales and consulting engagements. W...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration