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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,

  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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Bullet charts need to incorporate both time and versions

Bullet charts should be able to show how a particular metric is tracking over time towards a specific target. At the moment this is not readily achievable in PAW. In the example screenshot attached, it is not possible to track actual revenues to a...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maintain the 'Sent From' user when a schedule is changed

When adding recipients to a distribution the original scheduler is updated to whoever updated the distribution.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Find/search connections beyond currently displayed in the Platform connections page.

Current design of the Find/Search in Platform connections page: the search can only find something within the loaded connections, so the user would have to click on `Show more` to load the remaining connections if they have over 100 connections cr...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Add Action Menu (more button) to Recent section under the Hamburger Menu

In 11.2.2, when I go to recent in the hamburger menu, I can only remove from recent. I used to be able to share, copy, move, etc. I would like to be able to do these things again.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Data Protection Rule should not be editable by other except the user who created it.

When a Steward with the Manage Data Protection rule permission creates a Data protection rule and applies the rule on the column name, User who is restricted cannot see the column, however when the same user who is restricted can go to the rule an...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Updating Cognos Integration Server Connection from backend using SQL DB

This is regarding updating the Server details in the Connection from Cognos Integration Server. As a part of updating the BW server details, we need to do the following: 1)Export the selections 2) Delete the selections 3)update the connections 4) ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Allow connections to db2 luw databases to use SSL

Our company is in the middle of implementing an 'in-flight data encryption' for all database activity that requires SSL use. Other IBM products such as IBM Data Studio and Data Server Manager allow for connections to databases using SSL jdbc drive...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER INDEX that columns can be reordered without drop and recreate

Recently we had a major incidence in production because an automatic bind happened after the drop of an index of a very big table and before the recreate of that index, although the Create used the Option DEFER YES. We wanted to reorder some colum...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Wrong output format in Audit Table

Customer is asking for a more accurate audit logging in the area of output format. Due to a bug the only format being logged is XHTML also a ad-hoc report is executed in an different format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration