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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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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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Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Undo Button Removal in Planning Analytics

We have a large number of users who log in and use our system. When the undo button is pressed it takes a long time to execute and it causes user threads to become blocked. Once slowness is reported we would normally go in and cancel this undo thr...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube: there is no way to model a dimension such that members can move within a level without breaking a report

Reports (both professionally authored and business authored) break if they include members that have moved within a level. If a report is created with members, and these members move to a new parent, then that report will no longer run. There is n...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Db2 load ALLOW READ ACCESS support for column organized table

Currently, if a db2 load is happening on a column organized table, users are NOT able to read the data from same table until the load is finished. It's inconvenience for the customer and its users in their daily operation. Thus, the customer wants...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Syncronized navigation paths

When using a Cognos Analytics dashboard, multiple visualizations often share a common column and thus a common navigation path. There should be a property, much like the widget connections property, that allows the dashboard developer to synchroni...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Disable a stage/path on canvas

Be able to toggle stages and execution paths as on/off. Gray out the stage icon if it's been deactivated. During development and debugging you want to be able to test up to a certain point and but may not want to include every aspect. But if you d...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Re-center on View includes title element or toggle to stop re-centering.

In Planning Analytics Workspace, when you have a book with a defined area that is larger than the current screen, and you have a cube view that is larger than the screen, and select something in the cube view for the first time, it re-centers the ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration