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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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Add Palette Colors to Widget Text Items and Objects

Add the ability to apply Palettes to Widget Shapes and Text to increase the number of colors available.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Issue with StringToNumber function depending on locale

When the function StringToNumber is used, the TM1 process uses the client's locale/language to set the decimal and thousand separators when the client creates a process. After a process is created the decimal and thousand separators will not chang...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to create filter for null values in a field

When looking at records in a view and wanting to filter the records based on a condition, it would be nice to be able to filter on a field which does not yet have a value (null).
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

If some Question response are rejected then Questionnaire should not be closed

If some Question response are rejected then Questionnaire should not be closed.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Adding new column "Span Columns" in the objects administration of profiles

When configuring an object of a profile there are currently 5 columns visible in the "Object Fields" section:- Name- Field Group- Label- Required- Display Type To check whether any field has the "Span Columns" set to true or false, you have to cli...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow the Information text when opening a Questionnaire to be customized per Program

In v7.2 the Information text box when opening a Questionnaire can only be edited via Application Text but it is a global setting so has to be the same for all Questionnaires. We would like the ability to enter different instructional text in this ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

API to retrieve selected parents in OpenPages Trigger Framework

When user tries to create a new object from the UI using Add New Wizard, the user can choose both the primary and secondary parents. If there is a requirement to validate the type of parent and number of parents being chosen before creating the ob...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration