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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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Ability to call REST APIs as a data source in Watson Query

We are currently probing the capabilities of Watson Query to support a data mesh architecture by acting as virtual layer over our heterogenous IT landscape, providing uniformly structured data services to the consumers. A large number of our data ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Sorting schedules by name in Cognos Administration Portal

High need to sort schedules in the Administration portal by name and an easy way to search for a schedule
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Synchronize by Book and Sheet

We have a need to be able to synchronize widgets by both book and sheet on the same page. For example, we have one page which shows inventory details (product name, on-hand quantities, on-order quantities, etc.) for a particular customer but would...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow workflow Validation to be run as system Admin like Operations

This is useful in cases where we have validation place on parent and children's object but logic user do not have accedd to them.
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Impossibility to close the previously opened session in the Administrative Console

The client claims that if they go outside the Administrative console without logout, to log in again, they have to wait for the logout timeout because the system does not allow them to close the previous session.
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Utilities to monitor, manage, and/or control cloud disk and content store space usage, data sets, and user file uploads

Given that we are about to allow specific users to upload files for their own self-reporting needs, we would like utilities that allow administrators to monitor the space being used by such files on a per environment and per user basis. Better yet...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Missing job step details in my activities and schedules tab for end users

Hello, as end user I dont have anymore information about what is being executed as a step (report) inside a job. When I run a job and go in my activities and schedules in "current" tab, I see only the job running without information how many repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics PowerPoint Addin

With complete integration, users do not have to recreate charts and table in powerpoint. Users simply login and refresh the sheets. Additionally, with true integration, charts and labels will not deform when the objects are stretch or shrunk just ...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Objects to be excluded from Reporting Periods

Reporting Periods are extremely useful for a variety of use cases. Currently when a reporting period is created, all data in OpenPages is duplicated. Some data in OpenPages does not need to be included in reporting periods, so it would be great to...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration