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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Legend sort in charts according to the selected set, even with the zero suppressioin

At the moment if you show the legend for your chart, it doesnt matter what type of charts, you cannot use the zero suppression for sure. The sorting order is functioning not according to your set but according to your values, it is not practical a...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Under review

Workflow Action that loops over a Multi Select Field

For some processes, end users may opt to select fields in a multi-valued picklist. In those events - such as a RegChange, it would be great if we could loop over those results and create objects and do other actions like in a Loop. So in my Regcha...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Documentation update regarding DataStage Roles and Capabilities

Every DataStage team in the world needs a quick reference to the DataStage roles/permissions/capabilities which is easily understandable and comprehensive at a glance. There isn't one in the manual, it's just a bunch of overly-complicated text. So...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Provide export functionality to select other user info to be displayed in export, for example, to show email address or first name and last name instead UserID?

Business users will be able to identify quickly an easily who are the owner, assignee or user that has an specific role just into the record export. In this moment are able to see the user name (UserID) only, so a user should investigate the first...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Add terms in IKC to Automatic term assignment

Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for [automatic] term assignment’ –From IBM Documentation. Can we have the option to consider these for ...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Better pagination in catalog

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window. When searching for an asset within a catalog, change from 'show more' to a multi select e.g. 20, 50, 100 rows (similar to business glossary.) **
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review