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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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Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages Workflows Should Not Notify Inactive/Disabled Users

Emails being sent to disabled users is a significant security concern for the OP system. Anyone labeled as disabled or inactive should not be sent emails if a group they belong to was selected for notification in a workflow.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CUBE DESIGNER with OPENID Connect

CUBE DESIGNER CANNOT LOG IN TO OPENID CONNECT NAMESPACE EITHER LOGON(PORTAL) OR LOGON We would like to request support for Cube Designer for SSO with OpenID/myiD(OIDC) Connect security or support for OpenID security OPENID requires support for bro...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Download/Upload Colour Palette (IDs) for environment promotion

PAW Colour palettes can be manually re-created across environments but as each palette is created with a unique paletteId, the colour formatting is lost when we deploy between environments (colour palette needs to be manually re-selected after dep...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

StartupChores in V12

StartupChores is not accessible in V12. Update the instance configuration interface to allow the setup of StartupChores parameter in V12. As of 20/05/2024 the documentation mentions this parameter is not part of the deprecated functions but unfort...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Allow the transfer/ copy of private views to different users

Public views become too crowded if are used by different departments in the same company. It is relevant and helpful to have a list of department/ standard views available for all interested users. In order to be able to have this list in an effic...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans: Subtasks

Currently there is only the option to create a task and not subtasks. There is a need for a task to have subtasks, as well as the subtasks to be assigned to different contributors / approvers then the parent task.
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Transparent HEX color for PAW color palette

On the 'line and column' chart in PAW, due to chart limitation, we cannot hide the first line as that corresponds to the first column values too. So the users have requested if we can at least make that line transparent on the chart. Is there any ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Masked Data Customization

Allow more customization around which users can view the values of each encrypted attribute. This is currently handled at the user account level and a user may either view all encrypted/masked values or none of them. We need additional flexibility...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration