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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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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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Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Openpages 9.0 Multiple Login Problem

Hi, For Openpages version 9.0, the application interface can be accessed from both sessions when logged in with the same user from different browsers on the same computer.We kindly request this problem to be fixed. While a session is active,when a...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Change PAW Applications Gateway to PASS Connection

Within PAW configuration there is a setting for the related TM1 Web Application Gateway. This currently authenticates against the existence of a PMHub file for TM1 Web Applications. It is recognised that this validation will fail as PASS does not ...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide a consolidate report that list all subscriptions and their STATE and STATUS on a specific source

We need a consolidate report that list all subscriptions and their state and status (similar to the CDA subscription display list that shows a list of all subscriptions and their state. Ideally we will like to have a Stand alone utility that conso...

Deploy custom model out of the scope of a Project/Space

In this description the term custom models will refer both to Model bring on watsonx.ai with BYOM feature and models created by the Tuning Studio. Current situation Custom models are in a catalog and it is possible to deploy them in a Project or a...
16 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration