Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 14823 of 14823

Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Restart Individual Services with one click in Cognos

When stopping and starting individual services in Cognos Administration without restarting all services, there should be a "restart" option in addition to "stop" and "start". It would start the service as soon as the service successfully stops -- ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

eval(<string>) function within SPSS Modeler

The simplest to explain is the following screenshot: x1    x2    x3    Formula    Desired Column123    421    63    x2    421456    325    23    x1+x3    479789    634    75    x3    75 So the first ...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Override output email addresses

Ability to override the recipient email address (not sender as I know you can already do this).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Business Partners are looking for Cognos Adhoc reports open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool by default

As a part of Query Studio sunset in Cognos 11.2.2 Edge browser, Business partners are migrated their QS reports to RS reports .Business Partners are looking for Migrated Cognos Adhoc reports (RS) should open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool b...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transitions between a set of stages

Currently WF allows only 1 transition to be defined between 2 stages lets say from Stage A to Stage B. There is a need to allow 2 different actions (transitions) between these 2 stages i.e. from Stage A to Stage B. Based on the action selected, th...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

PAX Viewer requires minimize before Toggle works

When a view is opened in ‘Viewer', there is not the ability to toggle back and forth between the Excel documents when opened in Planning Analytics for Excel. There is a requirement to minimize the entire view in order to traverse the Excel file.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration