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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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Excel Tab Names

When outputting report booklet to Excel, there is no way to name the tabs. Ideally, those names should be controlled from properties of the Report Booklet reports.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better user error on termination of runaway DQM query

We want to use Cognos Analytics dashboards for ad hoc data exploration, but we need to put limits on query run time so that one user doesn't monopolize DBMS resources. The Framework Manager governor Query Execution Time Limit does not apply to dyn...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set folder as home page

Unable to set a folder as the home page in Cognos 11. This functionality is something that users often use. It is useful, convenient, time-saving, while accessing folders that we frequently access.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable/Disable Action Buttons in Excel Exports

Exports to Excel of Websheets with Action Buttons from PAW and PASS still contain action buttons. Most of the end users do not have any Excel Addin (PAFE, Perspectives) installed. The buttons have no function in the Excel Export File , are mislead...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add catalog information when a Compression Dictionary was created

The compression dictionary date created is currently not available to help identify the age of the dictionary. The age would also help to identify dictionaries create before upgrading to the latest release.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Default Location for Report Views should not be root of Team Content

Interactive reports only: when user selects to save a rendered report output as a View, the Save As dialog always defaults to the root of Team Content. It would be more intuitive if the default destination for the report view would match the locat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide documentation on upgrade best practices

It would be very helpful to know IBMs best practice recommendations with upgrades to Cognos Analytics. Here's an example why... With quarterly releases we have been looking for ways to streamline our upgrade process and wondered if republishing th...
over 5 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.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Aility to Connect to SharePoint 2013 and Social Media Sites

Business has had the need to connect their CA deployment to a broader range of disparate data sources, including SharePoint 2013 list objects and also corporate social media sites such as facebook and twitter.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration