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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,

  1. Post an idea

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  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 cancel user's own threads in IBM Planning Analytics

Provide a way for users to cancel in process views/threads/tasks they create in IBM Planning Analytics (local or cloud) through any interface. Occasionally users submit transactions or views that take a long time to complete, were submitted in err...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add ability to use Custom Templates when creating additional tabs

Users are able to create a template in Planning Analytics Workspace that can be set as the default when creating new books or selected when creating "book from template". This is great, until the user has to add additional tabs. When the user does...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

XML copy for datasets

Hi There, We are using copy xml to clip board and open it from clip board for datasets on 11.1.3. but after upgrade to 11.2.4, this feature is no longer working (it copies queries but not pages). we raised a case PMR TS017545639 with IBM. support ...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 4 Needs more information

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Openpages 9.0 Multiple Login Problem

Hi, For Openpages version 9.0, the application interface can be accessed from both sessions when logged in with the same user from different browsers on the same computer.We kindly request this problem to be fixed. While a session is active,when a...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review