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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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Highlight Widgets Outside of Canvas

During development of pages in PAW, sometimes, widgets are added which fall outside of the standard canvas area that would fall outside the viewable area if the page is viewed in PDF format. A warning message is given when this occurs. However, if...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Virtual Table Name should be longer than 50 characters.

When creating Virtual tables we decided as standard to maintain the default Target Virtual Table Name that is build as follow: ConncectionName_Schema_Tablename In some cases this turns out to be longer than 50 chars. and when trying to create it s...
6 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

PAW - dynamic images

There is a PAW book with Selector and Image, and URLs stored as the dimension attribute. It would be great to be able synchronize the image widget with the selector. So when the client clicks on the element in the Selector, the URL gets passed to ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

PAW Image local folder

When designig a PAW Book, we can insert object types "Image": to show it, we have to put an URL which addresses the Image. To do this, we need to setup a new Web Server or use an existing one (if we have...) and place all you images onto this web ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support to use Cognos Analytics via Android browsers (touch interface)

Provide the ability to connect to Cognos Analytics via a browser and use touch to navigate my content on Android devices.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration