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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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Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Add function for changing Ascending/Descending next to "Search" fileld in "Filter Condition" window

In the "Search" field of "Filter Condition" window in Report,Items are always displayed in ascending order. We often choose a recent date, but it's very annoying to have to scroll to the bottom. This function of changing Ascendin/Descending was in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

High Contrast Option in PAW for Color Blind Users - Accessibility Enhancement

I have a user who is struggling with differentiating rows in a cube view and reporting in PAW. The current white/grey coloring of every other row does not work for the user with color blindness, when trying to differentiate rows in a report over m...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted