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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.

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


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Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide PAW Qickstart

Most of our Users are familiar with the PAW Structure. For that we want them to use only PAW Applications. To ensure that it would be helpful if PAW remembers that a user has hidden the Quickstart on the PAW Startpage
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Application Section Groups

At the moment the user sees long list in the Plan Sidebar if the section consists of many assets. For a big PAW Application it would be helpful if it would be possible to create more groups, levels, folders under a section in the application, so t...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Workflow Engine

CP4D has so many components that run simultaneously, however, the orchestration is not there. In Data & AI platforms there should be an orchestration framework that gives the ability to build and maintain workflows. Hence, we can automate the ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

G Suite integration with Cognos

CAFE or Go Office do not support Google sheets/ Google docs. They are supposed to work only with Microsoft office suite. However, we need to make go office or café work with G-Suite. That was concluded by case TS000281895
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Additional Audit info needed

My business users would like to see how users are exporting the reports. Are they using excel pdf, csv. How often this is occurring.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2LOOK schema flag adjustment

There are two useful DB2LOOK flags that are often used: "-z" for specific schemas and "-t" for specific tables. I can give a list of tables, but a SINGLE schema. There are use cases where I want to capture DDL for more than one schema (which break...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Running Total Aggregation in Crosstab

If I use a running-total calculation in a crosstab, I don't get the correct values on grouping level. i.e. I use dates as lowest level and group by calender weeks. In the summary rows for calender weeks I get the correct value for my running-total...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

DMC: Custom Alerts not bound to monitor profiles

Today, custom alerts are created specific to the monitor profiles. When we wants to edit or view alert definition, we have to 'edit' the monitor profile, and go to Customer alerts. When we wants to view custom alert result, we also have to 'edit' ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration