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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,

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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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Upload PDF to Team content

We have latest versions of word documentation uploaded on Cognos in some folder. For example Cognos tutorials, data warehouse, data marts descriptions etc. Users have these documents immediately available. But we want users to have PDFs instead of...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Creation of the cache need to be a step of the running objects

The creation of the cache is a separate step for the objects that require a prompt to be executed, this new step use a slot of the background process. That means that all the "number" of the current and past activities are not correct, every repor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Set default view for a catalogue

Preconditions: There is a catalogue. There are two views for the catalogue: System default and a customized one. User story: All business users should work with the customized view of the catalogue and should not see the System default view. Unfor...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

The ability to add a button to the prompt screen

The ability to add a button that allows you to save and read the state of the prompt.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IDAA v7 uncrypted SSC dump files needed

When IBM asks customers to send IDAA dump files, SSC dump files are automatically encrypted when generated. Thus no way to see inside the encrypted files. Our policy (coming from regulation compliance) doen't allow us to send outside the company f...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Customizable Hover Text Color on Navigation Bar

Starting in 11.1.6 the text on the navigation bar changes to blue on hover. This creates a problem with customization because the text could become barely visible in certain situations
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to abbreviate multiple widgets at one time

allow users to abbreviate multiple KPI widgets at one time. As is, users can only abbreviate one widget at a time. Typically on a dashboard, there are multiple KPIs, and it's likely that if one needs to be abbreviated, all need to be abbreviated.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - when opening a data source, have a recents folder like in main navigation

when opening a dashboard data source, have a recents folder just like in main navigation
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Package listing should show contoken, last_used and package name on the same screen

Package listing should show contoken, last_used and package name on the same screen for useability
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration