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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,

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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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Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Option to set custom header for tile selector widget

Currently, the widget defaults to using the hierarchy name as the header. While there is an option to hide or show this header, there is no capability to set a custom header. There are several scenarios where report authors would benefit from the ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Alert Banner Time Limit

Please allow an option to modify the time-limit of Alert Banners to disappear introduced with 11.2.4 version. In earlier versions, Alert Banners never disappeared, along with dismiss button. With 11.2.4, noticed the Banners disappear after 120 sec...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

New MDM and Datastage releases available on RHEL 9.x on Power

Customer is currently running on X86 are InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v11.6/v12 & InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) v11.7. It is expected that MDM on RHEL 9 will be announced early 2024 and in order to have a chance at this winbac...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Too much wasted space between Name and location in the Portal

Notice you cannot change the column width. The location is cut off. I could hover over it but I should not have to do that. Too much wasted space between Name and location.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

IFPC workflow should show target when the source is executing dynamic commands in a session or vice versa

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards are us...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Addition of Column Reordering Feature in IBM Data Refinery

As a user of IBM Data Refinery, I appreciate the platform's robust capabilities for data preparation and cleansing. However, I have identified a significant functionality gap that I believe could greatly enhance the user experience and productivit...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted