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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,


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


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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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Default the delivery method to Excel/pdf at the report run time

I was looking for something like when user runs the report, if there is huge data set, Cognos suggest to select Delivery Method on the dialog box. When users select email option, it always sends HTML copy as there is no place to define Report Outp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add Capabilities tab to Data module's Properties like FM package has

We want to control which group has access to specific capabilities on a data module.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Portal Customization

Currently, it is not possible to customize PAW interface. We are hoping for a feature similar to themes concept in Cognos Analytics will be made available.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to control the bypassing of the authorization checking for mapping objects when dbname is used in REORG job

Implicit mapping objects are seen as transient as they get created and dropped within the duration of the REORG. Therefore REORG logic was enhanced to bypass the authorization checking for it (PI08339). These objects might be transient and interna...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add toolbox in Dashboard

The users wants to make the dashboard more interactive and controllable by controling the prompt Range dates and adding button with icons.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos SQL generation control in Server Setting

Many reports / packages have been developed and deployed by users.It takes time and cost to implement SQL correction for each report package.There is a need for a method that responds with restrictions on the entire system.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add drill through functionality for standalone Adobe Reader DC (Pro) in Cognos Analytics

Currently PDF drill through capabilites are only available for Internet Explorer running the Adobe Reader Plugin. The functionality is also required for the standalone Reader Applications.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk renaming of query items in Business view in Framework Manager

We have Source view, Business view and DMR view. No shortcuts are used in Busines view and only English language is used in Framework Manager. We want to rename query items in Busines view in bulk so that source names would be renamed to business ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logout Redirect

Would like to get logour re-direct capbilites working. We have tried to implement via system.xml as specified in the following url http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21650433 for version 10... but does not seem to work in 11
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration