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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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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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Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Ability to select the ranges for heat palette for geographic heatmap

Ability to define ranges for heat palette in mapping capabilities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to control Size & Overflow of Chart Objects on DASHBOARD via enhanced controls

Need ability to actual set Size and Overflow properties of Dashboard objects, such as Width and Height of a Bar Graph or a Heat Map through property similar to what we have in REPORTS or in Report Studio. Currently the Size can be changed only via...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow user access tokens to have a lifetime similar to 'remember me' support industry best practice

Currently, we have robots that submit jobs using the Web Interface. The tokens expiration is currently static, and there is no API endpoint to determine the validity of the token which means that job submission and controls can fail randomly witho...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Planned for future release

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, t...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for SQL, DDL, DML syntax checking

Add enhancement to syntax check SQL, DDL, DML before execution. Recently attended presentation of Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS and it has a 'Smart Editor' which performed these checks. I asked about it and was told it is using macros from the DB...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Read-only users for CP4DS and NPS Consoles

We need to give access to the CP4D and NPS consoles to production teams for the monitoring and diagnosis of the systems, without them being able to make any configuration changes. For this, it would be necessary to be able to create non-administr...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Planned for future release

improve documentation about CONDBAT (& MDBAT) and how to watch the limit being approached

The IBM provided documentation for important ZPARM of CONDBAT and MDBAT is a bit vague on exactly what to watch for these important limits. The documentation could be improved. I reviewed the documentation for DISPLAY DDF command https://www.ibm.c...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Map dictionaries to subtypes and provide evaluation stats for subtypes

Currently, only being able to map dictionaries to entity types makes bootstrapping projects with subtypes very difficult. It also eliminates a major way to improve recall. Additionally, not being able to see stats at the subtype level makes it alm...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release