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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,


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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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Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
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Need way to schedule TM1 Server Restart

Need the ability to schedule a restart of the TM1 server.Right now it is completely a manual process which requires a person to work after hours to perform this action. We need some way that a TI process or Command Center or the PAA to have a time...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Future consideration

Confirm username+password on workflow step

Hi, for compliance reasons, we need the ability to configure certain workflow steps to prompt a user to re-enter their username and password. For example, we have a workflow with an Edit step followed by an Approval step. The Edit step has a "Subm...
19 days ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Common Customizable Header Above the Dashboard Tabs

At the moment within a dashboard we don't have an out of box option to add a common header on top of the tabs of the dashoard. We should have a common header or also ability to edit to add tab specific conents but the main thing is it should be ab...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Customizable Tooltips for Enhanced Data Interaction in Reporting Canvas

Introducing advanced, customizable tooltips across various containers—such as lists, crosstabs, and charts—within the reporting canvas. This feature would allow users to display detailed reports or additional data visuals as pop-up overlays when h...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Turbo Integrator Variables

Have PAW interface show the file path of the source file. Also, be able to add a formula to variables added and evaluate the value (example: If(a=b,1, If(a=c,2,3));
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics For Excel - Undo

Have the ability to undo the last action e.g. if a cube was updated.
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS

Dark mode for Planning Analytics

Just a nice feature to have if IBM can enable dark mode so that TI processes can be developed much like VS Code UI and easy on the eyes as shown below. What I found was utilising the javascript but would be nice to have it permanently.
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhancing DataStage Monitoring and Debugging Capabilities

One of the critical aspects of monitoring, tuning, or debugging individual jobs or an entire DataStage project is to clearly understand which database system activities are triggered by which stage in a specific DataStage job within a particular D...
19 days ago in DataStage 1 Under review