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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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Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics For Excel - Self Updateable

The pace at which PAX is updated (roughly once a month) makes it really hard for any large organization to keep it updated. Big organization do not grant users the ability to install software directly and we can't be constantly building scripts fo...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Drill Through to URL/CA Reports

Planning Analytics needs to support more drill through options outside of Turbo Integrator. For example users should be able to drill through to a report rendered in Cognos Analytics. This could be accomplished by supporting a URL basesd drill thr...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to fix corrupted synopsis tables

Once DB24LUW-I-841 is implemented (ability to detect corrupted synopsis tables online), then we need the ability to fix them online.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Not under consideration

Ability to easily see all filters within framework model in framework manager

I would like to have the ability to see filters that have been defined within a framework model instead of having to go into each query subject. I would like to have the option to view all filters that are currently defined within the model and wh...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration