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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

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  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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Add Options for Trend/Baselines to Rave 2 Visualizations

Cognos Charts have multiple options for adding trend/baselines/target lines to Visualizations. The new Visualizations do not have this feature.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Convert From Dashboard To Report

Would like the ability to take an existing "Dashboard" and convert it to a "Report".
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support self-implemented common services / library functions

e.g. abend handling, error information generation, commit handling, …
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Cognos 11.1.7 Dashboard: Disable automatic grouping in tables

The automatic grouping can become confusing in the table. In addition, the text is centered horizontally in the grouping.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release