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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Allow Admin user to Preview different role/user access

Currently changing profiles as an admin user to different role-based profiles provides some indication that group membership, roles & profiles are working as designed. However, they also allow visibility to objects that the profile wouldn't se...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

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 ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow a WHERE clause for ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to delete data while moving a table

One of the most painful things to do is to delete a huge amount of data. One workaround for this is to export the data needed and then LOAD/REPLACE back into the same table, but this requires an outage of the table to accomplish. If a WHERE clause...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable Notifications for Bulk Update of Fields and Bulk Workflow Actions

When users use the Bulk Udate feature from a Grid view, or they complete Workflows in Bulk from a Grid view, the system shows them the result of the operation directly in the UI. At the same time an e-mail notification is triggered to the user. Th...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

MDX Object Type for Picklists

Picklists are a powerful tool when designing front ends. Currently we have to create a subset to hold an MDX expression to drive the user selection. As the complexity of the front-ends increase the volume of public subsets that need to be pre-crea...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

PAW Selectors should have the option to rebuild an embedded websheet (Universal report or Dynamics form) in a PAW Book.

After refreshing a PAW selector there should be the option to rebuild also an embedded websheet that exists on the same page
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Synchronize end user scrolling in multiple cubeviews in a PAW book when scrolling sycnronized cubeviews with activated gestures

If there are several synchronized cubeviews and an end user is scrolling down, all cubeviews should be scrolling down in parallel
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Redshift Copy from S3 Fails with 'AVRO string is broken' Error in 'Load' Write Mode"

When using the Redshift connector with 'Load' write mode, the copy operation from S3 to Redshift fails with an 'AVRO string is broken' error when there are no records. We need the process to complete successfully without writing any data.
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review