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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).


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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,

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  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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AI/Smarts

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AI Insights and Narrative Insights should be available in custom visualizations as well as the prepackaged IBM visualizations.

Currently, the icons show in the upper right when a custom visualization is used in a dashboard, and when icon is clicked the Insight panel displays but no insights are offered. It simply reads, 'there are no insights for this object'. This functi...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 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...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Update AI/Smarts independent of platform upgrade.

A way to train/update the CA AI model with the latest smarts independent from a platform upgrade would be very useful. Our AI user base wants the newer AI enhancements, but we aren't able to continuously upgrade CA every time a new version comes o...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 1 year 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 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration