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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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 add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To supported to use %%BindVarVal to retrieve bind variable value for system i

Hi We have a request to use bind variable and need to be support for i series in guardium
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Not under consideration

Hide Hieararchy name from inner label of pie chart

Unable to hide hierarchy name from inside label - pie chart. Issue with Hierarchy names being hidden fixed in PAW 93 but this particular label doesn't appear to be part of properties to be able to hide.
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change to 'Active DB2 Systems' panel

When viewing the DB2 Tools Launchpad and the list of tools installed, enter '?' for a list of active SSIDs. The list that returns includes all DB2 Systems by name, but only the descriptions of the subsystems that match entries in the currently a...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Secure Gateway token expiration notification

When you define a secure gateway, you need to generate a token which is used on the server where you install the gateway. This token as an expiration date of max 365 days. When the expiration date is nearly there, an icon in the administration pan...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Video Option to Watson Assistant

Currently, users have to leave the Assistant to watch a video. It would be great to have "video" as an options just like "text" or "image".
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration