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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:


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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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Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create Shortcut button in MER Msg EDITOR screen

PBB User expecting to have shortcut button to view the next message instead of user have to quit (return to the queue) then only to select the next message in FTM-MER 1) User excepting Next button after opening the message from Message List page 2...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Allow customization to fix the header size in Cognos dashboard or to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is there. Rows are getting resized automatically to fit in the defined box. But If there is no data available then header automatically resized to the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation run WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS

Infosphere Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation to run without needing Admin Rights on the windows. Installation with Admin Rights is ok, but the product needs to be able to run WITHOUT Admin Rights. IBM Software RFE Community: View request ...
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Automatic sync between notebook and Model Builder Python code

Avoid the frequent and confusing reinitialize of the Model Builder Python code and the source notebook by automatically updating the Model Builder Python code from the notebook.

history bottleneck information restore

The client need record the bottleneck information at intervals out of MC into their monitor system.It's very useful for customer If we can store history information of some critical monitor information.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Sign and publish container images signing evidence for customer to whitelist them

It is observed that some of the images get blocked by the Antivirus at some customers during image pull on false-positive threat detection basis. Signing the container images and publishing the signing evidence can help with whitelisting these ima...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration