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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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An easy way to average data

Hello, Very recently, I had the need to calculated yearly FTEs in an HR cube. The yearly FTE is the average of months (those with data, that is). The existing function ConsolidatedAverage() does not help: it goes to all the non-zero leaf level cel...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: book shortcut

Due to security/permissions reasons we sometimes need to place one book to multiple folders in Reports & Analysis. However, editing of each copy separately is not sustainable. So, we propose to implement shortcuts for books. Origin book would ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

The Numeral subfacet of the Part of Speech facet should be placed under the Noun subfacet.

In Japanese, some word appear in both Numeral subfacet and General Noun subfacet. So, We need to analyze twice, using each of the umeral subfacet and the General Noun subfacet. I know that it is very hard to strictly classify General Nouns and Num...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Export Story Functionality

Need the ability to export a Story into PDF, PowerPoint, mp4 and/or a custom downloadable format.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Calculations on single measure (ie YTY/QTQ on rev measure) in Dashboard

Today in Cognos Analytics Dashboard we are unable to perform calculations on a single measure.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration