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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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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 define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic sync between notebook and Model Builder Python code

Avoid the frequent and confusing reinitialize of the Model Builder Python code and the source notebook by automatically updating the Model Builder Python code from the notebook.

Support mobile browser: Chrome and Firefox for Android, iOS

When I open IBM Cognos Analytics from Chrome on Android, the Manage tab is missing. IBM services helpdesk informed me that IBM Cognos Analytics currently only support Safari on iPad. Can mobile browser (Chrome, Firefox) be supported on Android and...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Mechanism is required to clean up spark volume efficiently

We have found a correlation between the transitory errors and storage space used for spark volume, we have to manually clean up the spark volume to get rid of the issue. Manually clean up is not recommended in PROD by Anthem customer, moreove we d...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Use Custom Fonts

We(implementation partner) have a request from Customer to be able to modify fonts used within the Openpages UI especially on the login pages and Dashboard. System should allow Selection of custom fonts as part of a theme to conform to organizatio...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Retain indentations in hierarchy when exported from tm1web

When a cube view containing a dimension hierarchy is viewed from perspectives and this view with hierarchy is snapshotted out to excel, the indentations in the hierarchy are retained and the hierarchy looks as it did in the cube view. When this sa...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation run WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS

Infosphere Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation to run without needing Admin Rights on the windows. Installation with Admin Rights is ok, but the product needs to be able to run WITHOUT Admin Rights. IBM Software RFE Community: View request ...
about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Adding Users/Groups from LDAP

We have a very large LDAP directory. When we are adding users/groups, we connect to the LDAP. We can see the LDAP structure and objects. If a user click on one of the objects like Groups, the query will take a very long time. During that time the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MS SQL SERVER 2017/2019 Replication target/source support

Now is mid of 2019, but the latest MS SQL Server support is version 2016. Customer is upgrading their MS SQL Server to 2017 and above. And found the Queue Replication does not support the new 2017 server. Failed to create control table.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration