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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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Index query definition does not check if the index attribute has storage enabled leading to query which will never return results

If an index attribute is not stored the index query will never return any data. This can be cause confusion to the user as to why it is not returning data because it is not stored it will never return any result. If a check can be done to exclude ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Improve Smart Document Uderstanding processing time

Real-life scenario: the user uploads a document and the extracted info are needed as input for another tool or ML model (real time scoring is needed). The customer experience suffers from the waiting time. The processing time of one document is to...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

View/Edit Workspace calculations

When you have created a calculation in PAW there is no way to view or edit the calculation. Most important is to be able to view the calculation, but it would be great if it would be possible to edit it as well.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide an option, either to Add or to Replace field value at the time of Bulk Update

This is an enhancement needed for the Bulk Update feature in the Grid View. Currently when we want to add a value to the existing field, it is getting overwritten ( replaced ) . we need a feature in the "bulk update" where by we can either add or ...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration