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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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Adding Glossary and Lineage funktionality to Dashboards

Like in Report Studio, a user should be able to access the Business Glossary or lineage for a meassurement directly via context menu. In our case, all our meassurements are documented in Infosphere Government Catalog. Users are used to looking up ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade Bouncy Castle java library for SSL certificate avec with Extension Key Usage Critical

The library Bouncy Castle use into Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 don't support certificats with Extension Key Usage flag as Critical (Ex: TLS Web Authentification).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support for handling data quality rules versions

Complete audit trail of changes and proper versioning
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow customer to use custom authentication to generate JWT

Related to idea WTNXDATA-I-33. Customer uses a certificate that is generated at login time. The watsonx.data (CP4D) control plane supports using a custom authentication service (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=users-enab...
10 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

Show format Icons for saved output versions

Please show the output format of saved outputs in the reports again similar to C10 so that users can see what format they will download when clicking on a report
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to just one IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release