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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:


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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

  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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Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Way to tell if a Db2 view is not being used any longer

We are looking for a solution to tell if a Db2 view is still used or not.A request came to our team to rename a column in several tables. One of the tables have multiple view on it, and one of the view includes the column to be renamed. We cannot ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 6
260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New API operation for fraud marking a record in the whole cluster

The existing markFraud API operation receives as an input a URID that is specific of the API instance that will process this operation. This creates a possible information gap if the API instance that will process this operation is different from ...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

chat based field

Sometime when multiple people are working on an Object they would like to provide the feedback. can there be a field like chat based . so that in that field only they can add comments.
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Under review
206 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration
138 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted