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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 ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change visualisation color manually

Being able to manually change visualization colors of bars/lines would be very helpful. Every now and again we encounter multiple uses of the same color while the pallet allows for more colors (see attachment). While this should not happen in the ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Layout improvement for dashboard visualizations

Using relative positioning for the dashboard canvas, it is very difficult to properly lineup the visualizations, they do not snap to bordering visualizations. Lets says you have 3 visualizations and the first 2 have a width of 11% you would expect...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Search on Associate/Disassociate screen does not allow wildcard searching

In the SUI, a user can do a wildcard search using '%' to find relevant records to associate. In the TFUI, this is no longer supported and is a challenge for users who don't know the exact names or IDs
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

PA: Usage metrics of PAX & PAW by users or workbooks

PAX & PAW is a going to the primary interface promoted by IBM, but there is no tracking available in identify whether a user is using PAX or PAW. There are few stats cubes available to capture metrics, but there is nothing available for these ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Going back to workflow previous versions

While workflows show the version number, there is currently no way to go back to older versions.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FMT function required for MSIF Services in FinPlus

FMT Function for SIPN-FIN Service is available. But there isn't a similar function for MSIF Service in FinPlus. There will be cost implication if the routing is done through SWIFT.
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Cache in memory dynamic cube data to restart dispatchers without having extended outages to load cube data

Currently our project has about 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups and using package routing. If we have to restart a dispatcher it can take a couple of hours to restart the cube. We do restart our cubes daily or weekly depending on the source ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration