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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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Provide archival features to efficiently manage large volume of data within OpenPages

As our data increases to a larger volume ( i.e 700GB ) everyday, it becomes longer and longer to manage the data archival / db2 backup process.Also certain task such as reporting schema rebuild takes large amount of space (i.e 50 GB of db2 log spa...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

OpebPages Backup script Optimization - multi threaded approach

The Backup script provided as part of Openpages product takes almost 4 hours to backup the Openpages config files, DB and the storage. This can be optimized if the backup of each component is rum in parallel in a multi threaded approach.The detail...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration

Grid View Export to Excel option to export all objects/fields as displayed - not 1 sheet per object

The GRID views are excellent ways for the users to view complex data structures such as Process, Risk and Controls. However, there is no way a user can export that view into Excel. The export to excel option creates one worksheet per object in the...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Access Rights on Move Option

We have faced performance issues with big customers who used to use Move Options (Folder View) for business change purposes. OpenPages has a way to limit this right but is Binary (everything or nothing), anyway customer has multiple scenarios for ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Not under consideration

Interactive mode crosstab wrong summary when expanding

When running a report in interactive mode having a cross tab (dimensionally modeled) and you have a set and a summary on rows. When expanding one member the summary double counts the result since both the member and the children now are visible. T...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dynamic naming of report output

I need an option to send a scheduled report via email and the name of the attached report should contain a dynamically changing date string. E.g.: report name stored in cognos connection is 'sales'. Report is scheduled and a filter is set to 'prev...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Scan Uploaded files for viruses and negative content during upload

Currently Cognos Analytics does not scan uploaded files for viruses or negative content
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Web Services Calls Needed

Web Services Calls previously supported by VVM in the Cognos 10 environment are needed to support the transition to Cognos 11.0.10 These items are critical to the success of the transition and are stopping us from being able to move forward. This ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extension to Temporal (TimeTravel) SQL

Avoid error SQL20524 RC 3 which is returned once you try specifying a column name instead of a explicit value like in following SQL:SELECT * FROM FACT INNER JOIN TA_DIM_BITEMP FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF colts ON fact.id = TA_DIM_BITEMP.id Just to cla...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Lets Get Rid of the Big White Blinking Page in Reporting!

User is viewing a Cognos report, and executes a drill through or refresh...Page goes white, animated gif starts spinning forever, while you're looking at a white page...drill through report applications are elegant, except for this behavior! This ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration