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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,

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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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Permanent Hide the filters in a Dashboard for end user

End users not to be able to implement filters on the data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Confirmation of status using PAW buttons with TI

In version 39 the possibility to use PAW buttons to run TI processes is introduced. This works fine, but unfortunately no confirmation of a successful execution of the process is provided. You can start the process and that's all you see. It shoul...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Workflow in Controller Web - Submit

After submitting a submission in Controller Web, you get the following alternatives regarding where you want to go next: Back to overview Back to projects Cancel The best alternative for a logical workflow, would be to be able to select "Start rep...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Dependency Management (for TCC)

In order to provide a better dependency management while implementing applications, I ask you to provide a Maven POM file. Providing dependencies via copy and paste causes, among many other things, a bigger software repository and/or unpredictable...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release