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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Migration warning needs to provide specific details about issues

The "Button Widget Warning" that appears when migrating PAW books from one environment to another is lacking in that it does not provide any details on which object from which book is causing the issue at the very minimum. Without the additional d...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Relative Proportional Spreads for multiple quarters and years

Allow relative proportional spread to multiple quarters at once. For example, take Q3 2022 Actuals and spread this to Q1 to Q4 2023 Forecast data.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add and support JDBC / DQM functionality for Progress clients

Support for Progress OpenEdge JDBC connections for IBM Cognos Analytics to report critical information. With CA 11.0.2 Progress no longer supports Progress OpenEdge ODBC with no JDBC support for DQM dashboarding/story telling functionality for Pro...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User-friendly preview mode

Preview mode should use the initially set prompt parameters.See document in attachment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Private view for PAW Books

User have been looking for options to save their choice of filters and preferences for PAW books. This would save unproductive time for repeatedly selecting the filters to a desired view. This is specially tedious if the filters have large sets to...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 z/OS real storage management (Case TS006310627)

After the observation of a significantly increase of the CPU consumption in our Db2-MSTR regions, we opened case TS006310627 at IBM since the reason was not evident. The result of the analysis with IBM showed up that probably APAR PH31684 caused t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Select Own Custom Designed Mapbox Layers

Mapbox Studio allows you to design custom maps, including using your own data. You should be able to use your own Mapbox basemaps, instead of only the 10 or so basemaps provided by Cognos.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration