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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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Force Save button

It would be nice to force a save on a record, even if it has not been updated. Business use case: A risk record has a control attached. The control has values that are used in a calculation for risk rating that is stored on the risk. The control...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Rest API call equivalent to LogOutput

Currently there is no equivalent method in the Rest API to the TurboIntegrator LogOutput function. As a workaround you can run an unbound TI which in turn does a logoutput. But there shoudl be a method via the Rest API to write a custom message di...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Documentation ConfigSetter Tool

Provide a specific chapter in the product documentation to explain the ConfigSetter tool and the parameters it can use.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart should allow drill-through on "Other" or "No Value" segments

When pie/bar chart is based on a dropdown field with more than 10 values, the pie/bar chart automatically shows top 9 segments, and then groups remaining small segments into an "Other" segment. The top 9 segments are clickable for drill-through (t...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Performing an update of InfoSphere Information Server fix corrupts Datastage projects

"At Banco Popular client, the fix pack for IBM InfoSphere Information Server Version 11.7 had to be installed. However, during the installation, a backup was created, which takes the client 3 days. During the case response period, it was found tha...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Need to have YouTube tutorial videos for MDM installation or Upgradation

IBM should create YouTube tutorial video for MDM installation or upgradation like WAS team has created. Following instruction given by IBM KC is bit complex, however, when you have videos showing step by step that you need to follow is much easier...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open connectivity into Cognos FM packages for 3rd party tools ala Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx

Cognos Analytics Framework Manager packages probably constitute the best data governance platform in the market and it would be of even greater value if we could leverage our modeling investment by having connector access to the packages in 3rd pa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration