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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,


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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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Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Issue - Data formatting on Conditional blocks

1. Data formatting defined for the cell doesn't work inside conditional blocks.2. Search Enhancement - Cannot search for report within subfolder. Always, search option shows result from the root folder in cognos connection3. Copy and Paste Enhance...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add SSL certs

"Plain text" connections to Informix are only encrypted if using SSL. The manuals and internet only explain "self assigned certification" well enough to implement. To make matters worse the "certs" expire and then you have to wipe everything out, ...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Log viewer role also in Classic Experience

Would be very useful if the Log Viewer role become valid also in classic experience like in new experience. Or as alternative.. let reader/writer to see activity logs and analytics in classic experience: peoples creating the assistant contents nee...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Dialog nodes drag & drop like "new experience"

instead of clicking on the node, move on the node tree, then choose where to drop the new node and then choose if above or below the target node.. drag and drop could be more user friendly
about 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Exploration Features colour and icon in PAW

Following the update to the new experience view in PAW, the default exploration feature icon has changed from a white +/- in a black circle to a black >. Depending upon the fill colour used for the Row and Column Headers, the black > icon is...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Granular admin permissions

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Assistant / W...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Drill through to a specific tab

Our team uses IBM Cognos Report Studio to create Reports for our customer. We have created a report with three tabs. In the second tab there is a Drill-through to the same tab, the second. When the author opens the report in Report Studio and clic...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration