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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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Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Find query subjects/items

System: Cognos Analytics 11.0.x In Dashboarding there is a Find bar allowing the user to search for a specific keyword in query subjects (tables) and query items (columns) in a data module. This feature should be included in Reporting, allowing th...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

User Access Management

Over time we had many users and many of them become idle, left IBM or got another role. Keeping these users generates risk. We want to remove these users and I couldn't remove them all by one step. I had to do it one by one and it took a lot of ti...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Filter entities in advanced search by record_count

Allows for the ability to filter on singletons, something we need to manually do via an export right now (which has limitations if we go over >500k entities exported). This would increase user ability to do deeper searches.
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

New selector widget - possibility to change font color, font family, font size

It would be a nice enhancement for the new selector widget to be able to change font color, font family and font size in order to create more layout options when it comes to dark themed books (font color) and to create a more consistent dashboard ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export Format

When exporting from OpenPages, the only available format is 1997-2003 which is incompatible with Encryption tools etc. Whilst the file can be resaved as a more current format (xlsx), a better user experience would be to have this format available ...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Subset grouping in logical folders

Have the possibility to group subsets into various folders/sub-folders to make them easier to consume by the end user. A large user base can result in a large number of public subsets that can result in confusion when scrolling through endless lis...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration