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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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  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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Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

MER - enable checking line length (number of characters in one line) in fields with free input

In the fields in message in MER, which are free input during entry, there is no check of line length or number of lines. You can write unlimited in one line. There is no entry like in MERVA. Only purely structured fields, i.e. those with options A...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

FTM for Swift- message printing layout

Adjustment of the message printout to be more similar to Merva's printout, the data is quite unreadable because the field descriptions and the field content are not separated, the problems are bigger with large messages that have a lot of fields. ...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -413: Add an ID of Column/Host-Variable

Currently SQLCODE -413 looks like this: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -413, ERROR: OVERFLOW OR UNDERFLOW OCCURRED DURING NUMERIC DATA TYPE CONVERSIONDSNT418I SQLSTATE = 22003 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP = DSNTZEXE SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR This...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide certain report type in PAfE

It would be useful to have the ability to remove certain report types. It would simplify users adoption as there are 5 report types at the moment in PAfE. Also we could coerce users to use only a specific ones like Universal report or custom repor...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Relationship Editor - Selecting several related items at one time

Real-life scenario is that user has to add several related items to a product in persona-based UI. For example user need to create a relationship from item A to 25 items 1 ....25. Currently user has to open the editor, search and select items in r...
10 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

search current folder

1. Would like to be able to set a folder to use as the starting point for a search. 2. Would like to be able to start a search from the current location when navigating through folders in content store
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration