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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:


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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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OpenPages - Text field - need character count

Generally, all free text fields (should) have a character countdown. Also, from a user experience perspective, when the character limit is reached, a user should not be able to type more Characters; currently it allows the user to keep typing more...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Print Functionality

"Expand All" functionality would help to save "mouse" clicks for print preparation.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Alert users when an updated module or data set is available

Scenario: A user is building a dashboard using the Dashboard tool. At the same time, an updated data module is saved, making the users current data module obsolete. The user doesn't know this, however, and continues building their dashboard. The n...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Have Templates for column selection+order in queries

Typically you have dozens or hundres of queries, many using an identical configuraton of columns. You need to specifiy those columns in every query. When changing the order or adding/removing columnsit is a pain to update them. When creating you q...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 1 Future consideration

HADR/TSA/DB2 hang detection feature to have TSA automate a failover during a database hang

Today in HADR failover scenarios we do not detect the database hang on the primary and failover the database to the secondary servers using TSA automation. we need the script needs to accommodate the database hang and failover the database to the ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

11.2 alter home page to Team Content Globally

There is a desire by customers to alter the home page for all users to be the Team Content page in 11.2. However, they can only alter to a report or dashboard. The user individually can alter, so the capability is there, it just needs to be exposed.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

FMT function required for MSIF Services in FinPlus

FMT Function for SIPN-FIN Service is available. But there isn't a similar function for MSIF Service in FinPlus. There will be cost implication if the routing is done through SWIFT.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Losing Focus on Which Query I am working in Query Explorer

When I am working on a Query, I am losing the Focus, I mean I am unable to see by highlighting on Focus or something so that I know which query I am working with. I'm not sure, if this is a requested feature or if it is already part of releases af...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release