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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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Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Connections in WML Batchjobs in Pipelines

When developing Data Science models, data source and targets can be both data assets in files or in databases. Especially in large environment, when data is stored in Data Warehouses, data should not have to leave the database from beeing used in ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

InSync to NOT disable query acceleration

When IBM Integrated Synchronization detects an error condition for a table, that table is removed from acceleration to prevent Db2 from returning stale data because no more updates are synchronized to Accelerator. The incremental update process in...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Open connectivity into Cognos FM packages for 3rd party tools ala Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx

Cognos Analytics Framework Manager packages probably constitute the best data governance platform in the market and it would be of even greater value if we could leverage our modeling investment by having connector access to the packages in 3rd pa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for DATETIME data type field in OpenPages

please introduce Date Time field in Open Pages in the future releases. Currently Open Pages has no DATETIME option available while creating a field to hold timestamp value. Business case -> To know how many templates are approved on time, let’s...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Support for High Availability for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

When Cognos Analytics on Cloud requires a restart, maintenance, or other cause for outage, the outage causes a total disruption of services. A rolling restart or backup service should be available to users to avoid this disruption. A backup servic...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change Password - PA Local users (PAx / PAW)

Users of IBM Planning Analytics Local are only able to change their password in TM1Web OR through perspectives/architecht. This is a major challenge as the perspectives client is only accessible through the admin server via RDP - this is only for ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Force Save button

It would be nice to force a save on a record, even if it has not been updated. Business use case: A risk record has a control attached. The control has values that are used in a calculation for risk rating that is stored on the risk. The control...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration