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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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  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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Keeping the Color Scheme - Dashboard to Explorations

The Dashboards have a color scheme that matches the scheme of the Solution they are embedded into. If you select a visualization, and drill into it, the color scheme is lost. This is problematic if there is a specific RAG, or escalation color sche...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow resizing or expansion of private/personal filter dropdown

On the task-focused UI when creating a private/personal filter, the size of the dropdown is fixed. When a long value is listed on the dropdown list, users are not able to see the full text. For instance, the dropdown list value is "Supercalifragil...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Ability to Create Static Business Entity Filter

Charts can use filters and they feed off public and private filters, which is great. However, since the existing BE filtering only exists in memory. (ie you can't save them.) you can't reference them as a static filter, hence can't reference them ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

watsonx.ai to allow the clients to retrain or build their foundational models on IBM HPC (VELA)

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, and has raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. They want to build and retrain the foundational models in watsonx.ai hosted on IBM HPC compu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 2 Not under consideration

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration