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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,


Post your ideas

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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New UI Dashboard - Ability to display our own Cognos reports

The new UI only allows for 3 out of the box dashboards (My Assignments, Subscriber, Oversight) to be displayed. We want the ability to create our own dashboards using our own Cognos reports. This way we can make sure the dashboards more closely ma...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 7 Delivered

Allow indexes to be made invisible to queries

When removing unused indexes the first step we want is to be able to make index invisible to queries similar to the Oracle feature. As the index is still being maintained the rollback to make the index visible to queries is quick.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Federation support for Aurora PostgreSQL

We have been able to successfully implement federation from Db2 on Linux (v11.5.7) to Aurora PostgreSQL v13.4 using the ODBC wrapper. However, when attempting to implement a similar federation from Db2 on Windows to Aurora PostgreSQL v13.4/v14.3 u...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Delivered

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresp

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresponding to that measure only. This prevents users from viewing specific data counts that they see in the the Reports or in ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Added new column/field into source file(.xls) then uploaded into CA but changes not retrieving in Data module

Created Data Module by using excel files. Added new column/field into source files(.xls) then uploaded into cognos analytics but changes not retrieving into Data module. We need this functionality to avoid recreate Data module because we receive f...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

To tighten security, disable Users from accessing their credentials in secrets, but allow access from flight service only

Currently their are some security holes in the product in that users can read out credentials from secrets. This can happen accidentally or deliberately through a malicious user. Consequence is that credentials stored can be exposed and used elsew...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 5 Delivered

Ability to filter a view based on text values

Currently, an option exists to filter a view based on top/ bottom numeric values ​​in rows / columns. No options are available if we need to filter the data in a view based on a string value (the only option is to write a specific mdx statemen...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Add Elastic Search as a source and sink repository for CP4D

Customers all over the world use Elastic Search as a repository of data. In this case we have an opportunity for a US Government customer that has a significant amount of data in Elastic Search and the opportunity hinges on the ability for all CP4...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Datastage Snowflake connector add Key Pair Authentication

Requesting enhancement to use key pair authentication with the datastage snowflake connector rather than using the typical username/password authentication. https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/jdbc-configure.html#using-key-pair-authentic...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

File Manager Open/Preview Files

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services coming in September, we will need to transition to the File Manager for view all shared folder files. Currently, there is no method of opening and previewing files without them being downloaded. T...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered