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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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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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Build Excel Export functionality in 8.0 UI

Users utilize the excel export functionality on a regular basis and will not switch to the new 8.0 UI without it. They export data from different modules and download it into excel and use excel to create custom views. This is a critical part of t...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Workbooks timing in PAW but corresponding request in the TM1 admin server do not get cancelled

Currently our PAW timeout setting are set to 180 seconds. We are seeing workbooks time out and throw various errors in PAW but when we look at the TM1Admin server activity via TM1Top. We are noticing the corresponding process ( for the timed out P...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend support of IBM i Datatypes

To extend the support for DB2 for IBM i data types, including BINARY (BINCHAR), VARBINARY, XML NCHAR, NVARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CREATE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE ITEMS

When selecting more than one Data Item, the options Explore -> 'Create' is not available. If only a single item is selected instead, the 'Create' option is available.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration