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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Data Module created from Data Server with multiple connections should be able to use any connection

We have a Data Module set up using a Data Server. This Data Server has two different connections that have many of the same schemas loaded, but the connections have different permissions. Certain users have access to one connection while other use...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

RAVE charts need Properties to support passing additional data in drill through

In a Cognos Report Studio report, we typically provide drill through from a chart to the same report, or to a different report. We typically need to pass several parameters as part of the drill through, including fields that are not present in the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create Data Sets from List Report

Current Data Set creation interface is limited to basic filters. This limits its use cases relatively static data that requires manual reprompting.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

TM1 API / Excel VBA - Refresh Sheet => Refresh Selected Sheet without sheet activate

In the TM1 PAX API it is currently only possible to update the current sheet. The sheet must therefore be activated before the refresh. It would be an advantage if you could specify the sheet and it would not have to be ‘activated’ beforehand. Rea...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Ability to customize color of buttons in message box

Blue color often associated to "validate/ok" and black color to "reject/nok" whereas sometimes it is quicker to choose the black one (e.g. moving a workflow)
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Ability to add extra table(s) to a view of tables in data module

Using release 11.1x we like the ability to create a view of tables in a data module like we used query subjects in framework manager. Unfortunately it's not possible to add extra to tables to a existing view after the creation. This means that in ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Provide logging/metrics for service level usage of watsonx.ai SaaS

Question from a partner about service level usage logging for watsonx.ai SaaS. Is there a good option to see detailed usage? e.g. number of API endpoint requests over time, histogram of input tokens per request, or grouped by token size, to analyz...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add TAQ comparison to Compressed Name Controls

Due to our inability to control the completeness of the names provided by external financial institutions, it is likely that name tampering—whether intentional or unintentional—by these institutions may prevent us from accurately assessing the lis...
about 2 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted