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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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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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Report retains report options from session to session

Report options - Automatic group and summary behavior for lists remaining off, but the Delete unreferenced query objects and Enable guided report layout get turned back on after closing session. Visual Aids - Show Hidden Objects turns off after ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Callbacks from CP for .Net languages like C#

Callbacks are available from CP using C++ or Java, but not if using the API from C# (or any .Net language). This seems to be very strange as the internal structures must be there inside the CP libraries etc in order to support the callbacks from C...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Access Detail > Allow to open an MDX View

It would be nice if drill through could authorized to open an MDX View (with Hierarchies and attributes directly shown)
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a replicate table between a single instance and the root node of a Sharding

Why is it useful? It is useful because it allows archiving of very large tables. This is useful for achiving of big tables. Addicionally, it allows higher performance to the applications, since the data is distributed in several nodes. Who would b...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Controller web-to allow fixing of historical rate on company journal

Controller web company journal data entry should allow fixing of historical rate like what the Controller Classic is currently providing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add type of execution in activities view

Currently there is no easy way to differentiate between different kind of executions in Cognos in activities view and my schedules and subscriptions view. There are the following types of executions: page preview run from Report Authoring run ad h...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to change paper format and orientation for PDF report

PAW should allow end users to control the paper format and orientation of PDF reports. In CA there is an option for end users to choose the paper size and the orientation of the PDF output. IBM should modify PAW to have a similar function.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration