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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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 an option to open dashboard in edit mode directly

To edit dashboard you have to open it and then click "Edit or preview". Many beginners do not know that and they ask us and they spend our time. They also say that they do not have permissions to edit dashboards but in fact they have. Because firs...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automate Housekeeping for \temp and \data

Currently it is awkward to clean up \temp and \data. Only the product knows which files are in actual use.If you had process crashes during report executions and or of the product itself temporary files might not be properly removed during a resta...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get value of a System Workflow Field via REST APIs

OP's REST API currently provides for an ability to fetch an object (ID, name, location, associations, fields) via GET requests to the /contents/{id}, but is limited to object fields only. The API does not cover system workflow fields such as A...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

CA Load Balancing

Load Balancing and High availability in Cognos Analytics.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BI 10.2.2 SQL Data Sources change to Other in CA 11

For Data Sources that use Microsoft SQL Server, when a BI 10.2.2 Content Store is upgraded to CA 11, the "Type" of connection is being changed from Microsoft SQL Server (in version 10.2.2) to "Other" (in version CA 11). This occurs with any Data S...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data communication between several IDAA's

Data transfer between several IDAAs must be implemented.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Watson Discovery v2 connectors for private/protected websites should support redirection support other Authenication mechanisms

Customer has a private / protected website that they want to crawl using a Discovery v2 IBM connector for web crawling. The private / protected website has redirection to login page and authentication is using Azure Multi Factor authentication. To...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Autoretrieve general disable

We use Cognos Analytics for reporting and analysis. Currently there is a setting in Cognos called 'Automatically populate values list' that needs to be disabled every time a new report is created. We need to be able to generally disable it once an...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add filter criteria to Excel ouput from WSA/11 as available in Query Studio today

Excel output from Query Studio includes the filter criteria added to the query. Would like similar capability in Workspace Advanced/11.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IJPMC0413-1605 IDAA: Enable Functional Roles with Stored Procedure security permissions.

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: dshums@us.ibm.comSubmitters Company: JPMorgan Chase PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IJPMC0413-1605 IDAA: Enable Functional Roles with Stored Procedure security permissions.Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Categor...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration