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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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User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Work identification based on number of subsections in a statement.

Work identification can currently be done based on Estimated cost, Estimated cardinality, Estimated data accessed. Ref: "Work identification by type, cost, or data accessed with work classes - IBM Documentation" This allows for identification of c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Add record count on the tabbed group grids

It would be great if the user could see a count against every grid in a tab group so they can easily identify which ones have data. This would prevent them from wasting time clicking on each grid one by one.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

"Move" option for devices

Requesting a better functionality to move devices to/from different groups. A "move" option would greatly benefit admins with promptly moving devices. As of right now, in order to move a device, if placed in an incorrect group, device must be remo...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Saved window sizes should be sanity-checked when opening

User opens a dataentry form in Excel and clicks to open the Intercompany popup. A window is opened and visible in the taskbar, but the user cannot access it in any way (but it can be closed funny enough). When unticking the 'Save window size' opti...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Allow admin user to monitor & cancel queries being run by other users

Users can initiate queries to fetch data that could result in long running queries which might use a lot of CPU time and affect the overall performance of the system. Only the user who initiated it can cancel the query. Need an enhancement to prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

WKC query functionality

As a data steward I would like to be able to query metadata about the assets that I own. As a data analyst I would like to be able to query information about a particular business term and its use.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Return dynamically created views using drill-throughs

Currently drill-throughs render a different view object than the one passed to ReturnViewHandle, this is frustrating if you want to dynamically create a view in the drill through process in pass this through in the epilog. The reason you might wan...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Ability for admin to delete fields from the UI

Fields are often created in error or are no longer in use but they can never be deleted from OpenPages. This causes a lot of confusion in the administation screens. Admins should be able to at least hide these fields from their views
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration