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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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Keep Report Description after a Save As action

Most desktop applications like Excel or Word, keep description content when editing a document and then using Save as to save the document to a different name.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add BlackBerry wrapper to Cognos Mobile app.

Our company utilizes the BlackBerry wrapper on mobile apps to give them access to our internal network. We do not use VPN on mobile devices. We would like IBM to wrap the Cognos Mobile App with the BlackBerry wrapper.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cell Annotation improvements - Add elements to }AnnotationMeasures to only show the comment

The way the comment is stored in the annotation cube is not ideal for any other purpose than the PAW and Perspectives comment functionality. The PAW functionality to annotate a cell is really great. The tag in PAW to identify comments in Explorer ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Audit trace for websheets in Planning Analytics Workspace

When looking at websheets in Planning Analytics Workspace it's not possible to view the name of the websheet to be able to trace back to the original report. It would be good if audit trace is possible similar as for views when you can press home ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change location of the information to the center of donut(Pie) chart when hover on the partition

Our team uses the dashboard in wide variety of our end user requirement. currently in each board we are using Pie chart with Donut view, when hover the mouse on each section the label with values is flying horizontally, we would want to have it in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scenario Migration tool

A good step to help DOC users migrate to DODS would be a simple Scenario migration tool that would extract scenario data from DOC and import into DODS. An option to also "export DOC Scenario(s) as CSV" could help administrators import the DOC data...

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add capability to input URL to local Mapbox server

For sites that are in closed networks, that have no internet connection there is an error when using mapping that goes to Mapbox. We would like to have the ability to define the Mapbox server location to be able to use this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced User Management

Companies with multiple and/or large teams expect the user management capabilities of the services they use to support their organization structure. Kay capabilities expected from an enterprise solution: Users assigned roles - directly or via ass...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release