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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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Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for CA connector within PAfE

Currently, the Planning Analytics connector within PAfE is utilizing WebView2 for authentication and subset editor pop-ups. However, the Cognos Analytics connector within PAfE still continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll). This currently causes u...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TM1Web Pictorial Chart

Charting is very demanding requirement these days, PAW at the moment has limited features, TM1Web's chart is still by far the most flexible and easier for Finance users to create their charts. Pictorial Chart has a growing trend in Excel user comm...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fix Visualization Summaries

When hovering over the legend in a visualization, the summary item numbers are calculated COMPLETELY WRONG. For example, a line graph of the total year showing a ratio per month has all of the ratios ADDED together when hovering. This is completel...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, More and more customers are heading up to Azure with their on prem IBM environments. We get more questions of: Can we use Azure PAAS platform or Azure SQL Services for our IBM Cognos databases. Does IBM plan on investigate these services from ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Preview for WebP

Problem Description/Example of Pain Points:Currently, our company handles a large number of images, and the number of images in WebP format is increasing. However, the IPM application lacks the ability to preview WebP images, resulting in signific...
4 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Report layout is not same as layout of the old version

In the current version/setup, we are running the embedded report library, which may cause slight layout differences in some reports. The embedded report library cannot be modified directly and requires an enhancement or idea request. The current v...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

On the Web Console for Cloud version allow for calendar functionality for Auto pause and shutdown

Currently the auto pause is either ON or OFF. HoweverNHS scotland want to make auto pause at different times of the day but have different behaviour for Monday to Friday with different parameters at the weekend. Hence a calendar function for speci...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration