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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

  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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When deleting an external connection to an NFS share, the pvc is not deleted in OpenShift

In cloud pak for data 4.8 a customer can create an external connection to an nfs share. When this connection is created a pvc is created. When this connection is deleted, the connection is deleted from CP4D, but not deleted in openShift. It is exp...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

download dashboard output in excel

Our user creates Crosstab structure in powerplay, and they would need same flexibility, currently downloading data it in table and the converting it back in crosstab in excel will be a overhead. My concern is why IBM hasn't provided option to down...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Create conditional style on Dashboards.

It is not possible to create conditional style on Dashboards.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Workflow Validation Dropdown when there are no validations for an Action

When you include Guidance text on a stage of a workflow it automatically includes a dropdown for validating the actions that can take place on the workflow. In a lot of cases the actions do not have validations so these dropdown menu items serve n...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Merge queries and variables when copying objects between reports

If you copy objects from report A to report B in new version of Cognos, it always creates new assets when the name of queries or variables matching on both reports. We are facing this problem when more than one developer creates the report or when...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Idea - Initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription

To Add an Option / Auto to initiate a Refresh on Table withAdd an option to initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription We replicate data from Db2 to Oracle/Kafka and vice versa and we need a zero downtime replication pipe and at...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration