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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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Relative Proportional Spreads for multiple quarters and years

Allow relative proportional spread to multiple quarters at once. For example, take Q3 2022 Actuals and spread this to Q1 to Q4 2023 Forecast data.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Request For (Configurable) Tree Prompt Behavior

We would like a behavior change to tree prompts, possibly as a configuration option. When a tree prompt is in single-select mode, and when a node is selected, we would like the parent nodes to be permanently greyed out and disabled for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Ability for Non Admins to create Public views

Report Writers who are not Admins need the capability to create public Views in Planning Analytics. Right now only Admins can do this. In addition, it would very useful for Admins to have the ability to see private views and then publish them
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to backup & restore individual services without needing to restore the entire namespace

With the exception of a few services, customers currently only have the ability to backup and restore the entire namespace. Customers require the ability to backup and restore individual services, rather than the current 'all-or-nothing' approach....
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Do not display deleted reports in the "Recent Items" list.

Deleted reports should not be listed in the "Recent Items" list.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue kerberos ticket renew from IDR

Customer replicates from IMS to Hadoop(HDFS), IDR abends on authentication failure(clock skew) due to Kerberos ticket expiry. This is manual intervention to renew the ticket, and recycle IDR subscriptions.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

New option for 'Object Field Definition', specifically 'Display Type'

Add new 'Display Type' option. It will be a text field, but will auto populate the ‘Date' and ‘User' info as prefix to text being entered. Example ‘1/14/15: Steve Robinson –‘.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Warning if two or more users concurrently open an item for editing

Currently the user only finds out after having spent some time changing content and when trying to save.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Show details of filter conditions

Currently users don't have any visibility of what conditions make up a global filter. Without seeing the details of a complex filter users might not be sure of what is actually being returned by the filter. When users hover over a filter name, in ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration