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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,


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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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Ability to tag a record as a favorite to receive notification when this record is updated

Nowadays, with the current technology, users expect their software to interact with them i.e. the software should 'talk' to the users and should provide information that helps the users perform their daily job. By tagging a specific record as 'fav...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Ability to create alias tables in data modules

Need the ability to create Alias Tables in Data modules. This is a requirement to effectively use data modules instead of Framework Manager.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Delivered

Package capabilites to deny use of data mondul, data set and dashboard

To able to deny development on a package is very important for security reason. Very often it is complex to build all security into the package, and then we need to put the security into the reports. Doing so we need to security the package so no ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Delivered

Role customization to control features at more granular level

We have extensively used "User Interface Profiles" in Cognos 10.2.2. After upgrading to Cognos Analytics 11 R5, this feature is deprecated and there is no control over providing different reporting capabilities to different user groups based on th...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Provide use case level authorization in addition to the existing user level authorization

The idea is a use case related authorization to provide a more fine granular means than the current user based authorization. What we are looking for is that for each user the Active Directory will maintain a list of use cases the users are allowe...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Delivered

UTS PBG, SINGLETON SELECT and Lock Avoidance.

Hello Db2 for Z/OS Development. Apar PM89016 was created several years ago to implement the lock avoidance for singleton SELECTs with ISO(CS) and CD(YES) when R-scan is used, or the index that is chosen has matching predicates on all columns of th...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Separate ability to run dashboard from ability to create dashboard

Modify security for dashboards to allow consumers to be able to run dashboard without granting them access to create dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Wildcard Search on Picklist

We have a long list of elements requiring to select using picklist, everytime user need to scroll a very long list in order to get to the element we want. As the element name of ours may have a mix of multiple languages, the sorting does not help ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve installation CLIST

I have just suffered over two days of Db2 Install Clist and can heartily recommend no-one use it to do a clean Install. The problems are myriad but the absolute number one is when it dies/crashes/abends all input data, apart from two or three rand...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Hide Queries option in report studion 11.1+ as it was in all previous versions

ad-hoc users should not have ability create custom SQLs or joins in report studio.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered