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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Timeout on Cloud RDP sessions is far too short

The time out for Cloud RDP Sessions at only 30 minutes is way too short. The login process is cumbersome and takes a few minutes each time. I also find that if my laptop goes into sleep mode that although I can log back in to the RDP sesssion, it ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

TM1 Web URL API is not supported on the Cloud

According to IBM the TM1 Web URL API is not supported on the Cloud. Some functions might work but not all. In particular when opening a Web Sheet via the URL API it opens in non-tabbed mode regardless of the settings in the TM1 Web Config. Therefo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for multiple TM1 login URI's

I know that you can enter several TM1 Admin Server URI's in PAW configuration by separating them by ; it would be great to be able to do same with TM1 Login Server URI's, to my knowledge this is not possible today.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep layout when sending Trial Balance to Excel

In a Trial Balance in Controller there are lines (between rows) to display which accounts are summation accounts. When sending the report to Excel the layout disappear. Consequently, the report in Excel are almost impossible to read. My customers ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Spacing of Text in Prompts

Provide additional configuration options on setting the Text spacing. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

MHT File Download

Provide users with the ability to download the active report while viewing the report in the browser
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to open a cube view from Trace Cell Window in PAW and PAX or make Input values editable directly in Trace Cell window

During Trace Cell exploration some users wants to change or make deep analyses of figures, so they want to edit input values directly in Trace cell value or open a Cube view data directly from formula with passing context from Trace Cell window.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow updating metadata without updating the document in "Update Document" Discovery API request

At this time, we need upload the same document due to update only metadata. I want to update metadata of a document without updating the document because it takes a long time to process the document uploaded.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration