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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.

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Add better pipeline failure notification stages/connectors like 11.7 on prem

We should have access to a Email Notification stage like on prem 11.7 has to allow us to notify an email group for failures and add specific job log/runtime data to the email. Not having this causes a lot of manual checking on jobs, and the built-...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Data validation or limitation for (string) cells

From Excel one is used to the functionality of data validation. It would be great to have this notion realized in TM1 as well. Our concrete business case is that users enter IDs for new elements in a business-driven dimension. These IDs should fol...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Sorting large amounts of data sequentially

We executed a query where a large amount of data had to be sorted. The execution stopped with SQLCODE -904 (temp. storage exceeded). This query was executed with DEGREE 1. When we executed the same query with DEGREE ANY, the query was executed by ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The jobs were developed in Watson Studio Notebooks in Python, they did not stop working when Python moved to a new version.

When the Python Library is updated, all jobs developed in the last version stop working. If it is possible to keep the work developed in the old version working for 1 or 2 previous versions of the current one. This possibility helps to have more t...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Restrict Access to columns/attributes based on role

Allow admins to determine which attributes a user has access to view in queries and within a case. This could be handled at the role level. Not all users need access to the same type of data; limiting which users can see each attribute helps infor...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Planned for future release

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Grid View functionality

Having a Grid View that displays quite a few fields is not an issue on a large screen (see attached screenshot 01_large screen.png). But on a small (laptop) screen you are not able to see all columns anymore (see attached screenshot 02_small scree...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration