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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

Drop Down Selector fill colour

The default background colour for Drop Down Selector is white without any ability to change the colour to fit with theme of the work book. The fill colour in general style only applies to the border colour.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

In a HDR cluster, be able to shut down the primary without triggering the auto-failover regardless DRAUTO setting and CM

In a HDR cluster, one should be able to shut down the primary instance without triggering the auto-failover regardless the setting of DRAUTO and the existence of connection managers. In DHL environment, there are scenarios that the primary instanc...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Action button properties in PAX

It will be much easier if the Action button properties in PAX report is resizable, especially when finding the TI process with long name. See attached screenshot.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

allow onedrive on rdp server

Onedrive should not be blocked on the rdp server. I need to map a drive to the server for data uploads.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Find/search connections beyond currently displayed in the Platform connections page.

Current design of the Find/Search in Platform connections page: the search can only find something within the loaded connections, so the user would have to click on `Show more` to load the remaining connections if they have over 100 connections cr...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Add Action Menu (more button) to Recent section under the Hamburger Menu

In 11.2.2, when I go to recent in the hamburger menu, I can only remove from recent. I used to be able to share, copy, move, etc. I would like to be able to do these things again.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

CRAN support for customizable R environments

Right now, users have the option to customize python runtime definitions in Watson Studio. In addition to being able to customize different types of environments (as requested in CPDIDEAS-I-994), we would like to be able to customize R runtime def...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration