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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

  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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Require Change to Primary Index When Primary Constraint is Changed in Alter Session

Currently when an alter is performed on the primary constraint for a table, Admin Tool will warn that a corresponding change should also be performed on the primary index. However, you can back out of that warning and generate WSL which does not i...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Close report set as homepage

When setting a report as the home page, we want the option at any time during the session to close that report and then return to the default home page.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Customize Dasboard Map Layers, Boundaries, etc.

Not having the ability to customize the city/county/etc. 'library' of the dashboard map severely limits its usefulness. Case #TS000146878
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement nonconvex quadratic constraints in CPLEX

CPLEX already supports nonconvex quadratic objectives, but not yet constraints, even though they bring a lot of flexibility in modelling.
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Auto-Generated Data Quality Rules

We would like these features in IBM Knowledge Quality for Data Quality rules. Rule Creation Ability to auto learn, based on historical data and feedback mechanisms to improve accuracy over time Ability to automatically suggest data quality rules b...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Customizable transliteration rules

Hi, I would like to ask for an interface/configuration to change/add IBM transliterator's transliteration rules. The need: We are repeatedly receiving minor customization requests from our clients for the IBM transliteration rules for different la...
8 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Submitted

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

IBM to look for trigger file when placing Cubes in sFTP site to avoid Cube files from being separated during transfer

Originally had this case open: TS001299703 So basically, we are trying to build cubes here in onPrem Transformer, sFTP to IBM so they are available in the CA11 Prod Cloud environment each day. The sFTP steps are proving to be the bottleneck becaus...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration