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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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Add handling of carriage character

The API currently does not support handling of carriage character. While our UI does handle this, in cases where customers copy/paste data, we are unable to handle unless we build a custom handler to remove carriage characters. While we can implem...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Copy users files from Team Content to the users My Content folder

We would like to to be able to copy files from Team Content to a users My Content folder, this was available in Cognos 10. The only option now is to copy from team content to another folder in team content or my own my content folder. Reference ca...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export and Import only Dialog

Allow to import only dialogue , right now, you can only import or export intentions and entities separately, but it is necessary to export a dialog of a workspace and import it into another workspace. if possible, the posibility to export only sel...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Filters of queries created in Query Studio that are migrated under Report

We are migrating our users from Query studio C10.2.1 to report C11 R11 Filters of Query Studio are migrated under Report as "filterExpression", That could be improved for users because filterExpression do not appear dynamically in the filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SetUseActiveSandboxProperty should persist for Process and any child processes

Just like the way Temporary views and subsets now works where the objects persist until the end of the process chain/transaction, setting SetUseActiveSandboxProperty(1) in the parent should keep this enabled through all child processes. When runni...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Annotation Support in Cognos Reports

The user wants to create a storyboard from the reports that available for them and be able toannotate (i.e red lining, or draw a circle to highlight something on the chart/report, andadd free form text / comments) and then able to save them. Also,...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add flag into db2advis to ignore existing indexes

When troubleshooting performance issues on tables with a high number of indexes, the db2advis tool kind of falls flat. What we have done to get around this is to restore a backup of the database in question, drop all indexes, and then run the db2a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Create a replicate table between a single instance and the root node of a Sharding

Why is it useful? It is useful because it allows archiving of very large tables. This is useful for achiving of big tables. Addicionally, it allows higher performance to the applications, since the data is distributed in several nodes. Who would b...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling Feature Enhancements

Here are the key improvements we would like to the scheduling feature and capabilities: 1. We need the ability to limit all schedules to a minimum of 15 minute intervals. This means no report or agent can be scheduled for 1, 5, or 10 minute interv...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for burst report test sending to see the outputs that would be generated

Allow users to essentially test the outputs of a burst report without actually sending anything to the recipients. For example - see the individual excel files that would go to a given email address, but send to the person testing, not the recipie...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration