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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

  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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Custom Control (Authorized Drill Through)

When creating custom controls like visualizations or data tables it is not possible to perform an out-of-the-box drill-through (authored drill through). Yes, you can use URL parameters to create a psuedo drill-through. However, this is very poor p...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Generate rebind package commands for all packages selected with 'RB' and '=' sign on panel ADB21K

On panel ADB21K, I type 'RB' next to a package and '=' against another package. I hit Enter and am taken to panel ADB21KR for the 1st package. I make no changes so hit Enter. I am taken to panel ADB2PSTM, where I choose option 1 and hit Enter. The...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard Conversion from Cognos 10 to Cognos 11

Provide a tool to convert Cognos 10 Dashboard (created using Cognos Workspace) into Cognos 11 Dashboard. This will allow the editing and enhancement of Cognos 10 Dashboards using the new Cognos 11 Dashboard Studio. A functionality that does not cu...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source DB CONNECTION should not be needed in an ETL project if its CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section and run Data Discover process.

In the V2.1.0.2, user should be needed to create source DB CONNECTION in the ETL project even though the source DB CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section without running Data Discovery process. (If Data Dicover process running for i...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bring back option to change object owner

In Cognos 10, to change the owner of an object there was a link underneath the owner name in the report properties that would allow you to take ownership of a report. This option seems to have gone away and there now appears to be no way to change...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optionally disconnect filter in filter banner from widget in dashboard window

if I set a filter in the filter banner for a tab or for all tabs, this filter is valid for all widgets in the dashboard window. It would be nice if we can, like we can disconnect widgets from each other, also disconnect a widget from a filter in t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration