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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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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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Dashboard List text wrapping

As a dashboard user, I would like to be able to display the full text of a Level field without having to hover over the text. Our use case requires us to display the dashboard on a large screen where users don't have the ability to hover over. Pro...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Filter widgets on all tabs when interacting with widget

If our dashboard has several tabs, our users expect the widgets on the other tabs to filter if they are interacting with a widget on a different tab. This is how it works in other tools they use.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Function to include upload file info such as modified date to a report

We need the ability to show when the upload file was created/modified in our data module for dashboard and reports. It is important for the report-users to know when the upload was refreshed. Other upload attributes such as owner and file name mig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

New Data lists: Insert Drill-Through

In Cognos Analytics there are the new data lists for reporting, which are quite useful. Unfortunately you can not insert a drill-through (like in a normal list object) to other report. That would be quite useful.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Stay in Full Screen mode when navigating between books using Action buttons in PAW

When viewing a book (in planning analytics workspace) the user is presented with the option to enter "Full Screen Mode" making the book fill the screen. If the book contains an action button to navigate to another book, the new book opens but not ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export

Select individual data module instead the whole folder to export
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB Filter based on field allow changing of description instead of

Allow user to override the name that shows on a filter.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration