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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:


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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,

  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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300 VOTE

Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 71 Delivered

Add support for the Spanish language, Mexico locale

Mexico uses points to express decimal separators, the same convention as the United States. This, of course, is critical for banking applications and regulations. We currently face problems because our Mexico clients need to configure OpenPages in...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered
700 VOTE

Send Email on Report Failure

We need an email sent to the report author when a scheduled report fails. This way, we could re-run the report or research the failure.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 15 Delivered

Multi-language Large Language Models (LLMs)

Local language support is critical - in particular in the EMEA GEO - for usability and acceptance of software solutions. In particular LLMs are critical components when it comes to language support, since it is deeply integrated into a companies w...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 3 Delivered
512 VOTE

Drop Downs in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment we can drag an item to the dashboard and it creates a hierarchy that can be selected from to change data. If we can change this to a drop down, similar to what can be done on report studio prompt pages, then it...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 8 Delivered

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
11 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
363 VOTE

Ability to expand and collapse a grouped list or crosstab

I would love to see the ability to expand and collapse groups in lists specifically, but also crosstabs. Only the summary information for those groups would be shown, much like what is shown by default when summaries are added to the list group fo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Restore rich text editor (CKEditor) features that were available in prior OpenPages releases

The migration from OpenPages v8.1 to OpenPages v9.0 is being impacted because the rich text editor (ckeditor) features have been removed and are no longer available in the new version. Features removed are: Maximize plugin - to maximize the rich t...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered