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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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Search Schedule by Name in Cognos Administration Portal

Currently I have option to filter schedules but if I need to search a schedule by its name, I have to visit each page and look at it and its time consuming as well as there are chances or error and I might overlook it. I have faced this problem nu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alphabetical order of signons, when report is started

When a report is run, where more than one signon is used, they signons are not ordered alphabetically (see screenshot). Signons should always be ordered alphabetically.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query items in package should be ordered alphabetically depending on the content language

In Frameworkmanager, the query items can be ordered alphabetically with two options (A-Z or Z-A, see screenshot #1).But when using more than one language in frameworkmanager and changing the language, the sortorder stays the same, only the query i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Restrict view access on Data Catalog (Overview)

If a Rule restricts/blocks a certain table or asset from an account, the account should not be able to see the table appear at all in the catalog. E.g. There is a Rule that denies access to data for assets with 'Data Vault' assigned to it and this...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhance .NET API for maps

When attempting to use the reflection mechanism of OPL CPLEX API under .NET (version 12.9 but same problem seen in documentation of latest version), I stumble upon an error on my first implementation of a missing method "NbDim" for the map class "...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Do not break shortcuts when renaming a folder name

The objects are indexed using their search paths, so if the search path breaks when a folder or object in the path changes, then the shortcut link will break.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reload View button in Cube Viewer

In Cube Viewer, add the button called "Reload View" as found in Architect\Perspectives. This is helpful when a user drags dimensions around so they can return to the original state of the view.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add the option to delete the cell comment from the woksheets in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

Users have created the worksheets in IBM Planning Analytics For Excel and published to IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Users can add the cell comments in the worksheets in PAW but there is no option to delete the comments. Even Admin can no...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration