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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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Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Future roadmap on the Database

I would appreciate it if you could help me with the following inquiries: 1) Will OpenPages support RDS Oracle DB for future releases in On-Prem environments? If so, what will be the supported DB versions? 2) Currently, the supported version of Ora...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Under review

PAW - Change default for TI parameter to String from Number

In PAW, when adding a new parameter, it defaults to the Number format. However, as a developer, there is often a need for a String parameter rather than a Number. While there is an option to change the format for multiple parameters, it retains th...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Improve the usability of the masking function

According to the manual, column masking has incompatibility with some SQL functions that we use a lot. In our environment, we have many abends with SQLCODE = -20478, example: SELECT CASE WHEN ST_EMAIL LIKE 'MARIA%' THEN 'OK' ELSE 'NOT OK' ENDFROM ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4

IKC reporting to Google Big Query

Please add Google Big Query as an option for IKC reporting in addition to the existing DB2, Oracle, and PostGres options.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration