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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Applications and Plans: Plan Announcements generates an email alert per task

When an Announcement is posted in a PAW Plan, it triggers an email alert to each user assigned to each task, instead of one email to each user part of the plan. For example - In the one Plan we have, there are 30 tasks. The Capacity Planner securi...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Keep certain cells in PAW

In PAW exploration views can be filtered / changed by using the dimensions: Keep and Hide are used a lot. This works fine. What would still be an extra improvement is to add a Keep option in the grid with cells. For instance, I select 1 cell, righ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove email notification when workflows complete "Run in background"

We have custom actions on workflow steps which take a while for it to complete, because of this when a user triggers the action step, they are greeted with a loading screen. A way to mitigate this is to set the step to "Run In Background" so that ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

PAW Pass Context - option to not pass Set

When you use the PAW button for navigation and select to Pass Context, it not only passes the Selector dimension element but also the set. Is there anyway to only pass the element and not the set? We have PAW pages where the sets are different, bu...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration