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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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).


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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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Custom widgets on BAI for saving column sorting

Despite being able to select the order of the columns for a report, this sorting is not saved and the customers need to redo it every time they need to check the report. Having a way to save this sorting would help the customers to just consume th...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Create an option to configure the user timezone

BAI uses the customer device timezone. However, when working integrated with BAW it seems that this timezone configuration is lost on BAI, therefore having a way to set this on the product end would benefit customers that can't change their device...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
26 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

SCIM 2.0 support for User and Group management on CP4BA SaaS offering

Most customers have established processes for requesting user access to specific LDAP (Active Directory or other) groups. Those groups are often leveraged to control permissions in BAW process or case solutions. Unfortunately, in CP4BA SaaS offeri...

Add a mechanism for live log viewing

I've opened case number TS020451332 and reported that I do not see the Live Log Viewer option from the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service - Development environment. The support team member indicated that in our we have the "Busines...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration

Enable an option to use UTF-8 as the default encoded for mail services

As today, BAW allow the customer to work on a Java file to define the email structure. However, we can't easily define that UTF-8 is the default encoding for the texts. From my experience with this customer, even if you define it on the html struc...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 1 Submitted

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0