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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Integrate the configuration of Cognos BI with the UI

The configuration of the Cognos BI should be integrated in the Cognos Connection Administrative area. The process of configuring and optimizing the environment is outdated, manual and prone to error.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Powerplay Client Explain feature in Workspace Advance

Workspace Advanced does not have similar functionality to that which was available in Powerplay Client Explain feature.The Explain feature is very helpful for business users to know the Drill down path of a member.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Back up the Secure Gateway from Planning Analytics Administrator

In a recent PA SaaS environment the Secure Gateway and associated Data sources disappeared from Planning Analytics Administrator. The Secure Gateway persisted as Cloud connections continued to render back to the source data bases. It would be bene...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Federation Server Administrator Authority

Provide a Federation Server Administrator authority (like the security administrator database-level authorization)This new Federation Server Administrator authority • should provide all authorities needed to create, maintain and delete federated...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Add dark theme for Watson Studio and Knowledge Catalog UI

Dark themes are popular for devs around the world, as it makes it easier on the eye when working long hours having to look at screens all the time. https://darkmodelist.com/
about 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to open a support ticket from tooling

One complaint I've heard from users is the ability to get help with Discovery. If users could open a ticket from tooling or even be directed to exactly where in IBM Console they go to open a ticket based on their account plan it could make for a s...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration