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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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  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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Row based security using session ID in Data Modules

We have a need for row based security in the data modules. Ideally we would be able to filter content based on the session id of the user against a security table that is part of the model. Our business analyst users can do this in other tools and...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Deploy TI processes with PAW life cycle management

TI processes are an important part of any PA application and should be deployable without any downtime of the target environment at any time. In the current state of PA processes must be deployed entirely manually by copying .pro files and restart...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Viewing Dashbords with Filters

I have a dashboard with global and local filters available. After opening the dashboard for viewing, if I then change any of the filters then the Cognos connection is seeing this as a change to the dashboard, this should not be the case. If I am v...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics (v11) - report in Excel format - Freezing panes

when using Cognos Analytics (v11) to produce a report in Excel format, it does not currently allow to set for Freezing panes, so that when you scroll the output data, the heading row(s) should remain frozen
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Audit Log on Questionnaires and Split Comments based on role

Two fold. An audit log on questionnaires to review changed responses and who changed them, as well as prior comments. Second, the ability for different groups to have different comment boxes they can edit.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Configurable Dashboards (WorkFlow)

Workflow dashboards and corresponding grid views are not configurable
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Planned for future release

Workflow Instance termination & start needs improvement

Using the workflow instances view to terminate workflow instances is not user-friendly. suggest the following improvements: Allow for search/filter and sort by Object Name and Workflow Version. If a user selects objects using the checkboxes, then ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration