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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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Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow workbenches to be bookmarked (unique URL)

Workbooks can be bookmarked, but workbenches cannot. Now that a lot of functionality that used to be available in workbooks is only available in workbenches, it's necessary to have quick access to specific workbenches that are related to workbooks...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Open the book with the comment

When I open a book and someone else is editing that book, I want to see a message that the book is being edited. (When I edit a book and want to save it, I notice when someone else opens and edits the same book at the same time)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete books or views

If I delete a book or view by mistake, I have no chance to recover it. (it will be deleted forever, I need recycle bin for PAW)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Saved Report Output to Microsoft OneDrive

My full content store export (backup) is over 70GB because my Cognos users save tons of report output...which they claim they need. I need to drastically reduce they size of my content store database and would like to offload they saved output to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

History of previous Global Search Terms

As soon as you click on one search result it will open the result in another tab. If you go back to the dashboard (global search widget), it will refresh and show a blank search screen. The search term/results should still show, otherwise you have...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Wrong result from reading Business Temporal Tables with CURRENT TEMPORAL BUSINESS_TIME set to a non-NULL value

When reading Business Temporal Tables we set a value for the special register CURRENT TEMPORAL BUSINESS_TIME in order to get the appropriate result. If it is NULL all rows are read. If it is not NULL only rows for the specified timestamp should be...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Icon 'Suppress Zero' looks the same when clicked and not clicked.

We'd like to have an icon change i.e. to depressed when zeros are suppressed, so it's clear from the main window if zeros are suppressed, as per Server Explorer cube view.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Automation of 'Update File' functionality

It would be great if you could create a job that auto updates a file I have in Cognos 11.0.5
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration