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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Automatic Version Control

Version control was a great feature, but people who use this UI aren't developers and they generally don't know they needed a back up until they make a mistake they don't know how to undo. I recommend that we keep snapshots of the client workspace...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Schedules delivered to API urls and ftpd to third party servers

Currently schedules can be uploaded to Cognos servers only and emailed. There is ask from customers who want to go get Reports delivered /uploaded to their company servers and APIs
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Dashboard: No Limit on displaying data values in the list on filter.

Currently in dashboard, there is a limit of displaying all data values in list on filter.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

· Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly

Page design vs Page preview noted as well to see if something can be done to make more user friendly
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Improve readahead performance statistic reporting

Since the improved readahead code was established, onstat -p and the associated SMI tables no longer report all readahead pages nor all usage of those pages so that it is impossible to monitor the efficiency of readahead and so be able to determin...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Spark Version 3.4.* for Conductor to utilize newer version of Pandas with Spark Functionality

In Spark 3.3.1, Pandas is unable to use 'iteritems'. This Issue is resolved in Jira but only for Spark 3.4. We would greatly benefit from Spark 3.4 on Spectrum Conductor and Pandas compatibility.
5 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

A path to deploy bulk deletes without the strain stemming from entity composition rebalancing.

In our current bulk delete of a system (~144M across 4 record types), the TPS is very low as the process requires a constant kicking off of the match process, meaning that the re-balancing is taking a large portion of the compute. This seemingly i...
5 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review