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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


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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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Backup Failure Alert

Having a push notification of a failure of a business critical event would be very convenient. Currently we would need to sign in to the console on the same frequency as the backup to ensure that it is completing successfully. If we received an em...
10 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Automated Data Quality Assessment

This feature would enable users to identify and address data quality issues within their datasets seamlessly. The system should perform checks for missing values, outliers, inconsistencies, and other data anomalies. It could also provide suggestio...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics is not scanning downloads for known malware

My idea would be that Planning Analytics would scan files which are inserted and to the system in such a way that there is no more security risks. Hence people cannot be infected by malware through Planning Analytics.
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 enhancement of global transaction processing

We have COBOL batch procedure started on z/OS that gets always abend for SQL error -911 . The Cobol Host program1 does DB2 SP in order to transfer control on MicroFocus COBOL on linux and then return on z/OS by doing another SP call where another ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 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...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar the same way as when navigating though folders. The names of cognos roles and groups do not appear as soon as they are long, instead we see dots.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select multiple periods for copying opening balances

Users have requested the ability to copy forward opening balances for multiple periods.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Relative Time Members Prior Year QTD / MTD Change and % Growth

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes automatically generates, if chosen, Prior Periods and Prior Periods to Date relative time members. However, currently, only the only Prior Period to Date members are for 'Prior Year to Date' without members for 'Pri...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration