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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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

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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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Text orientation

Text orientation is not supported from Excel, so when you publish a sheet and view it via PAW the text loses its formatting. This means I have to make the columns extra wide just so the headings are readable.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Export of filters to Excel from Workspace Advanced

When creating a report in Workspace Advanced with filters, when this report is exported to Excel the filters are not displayed in the spreadsheet as they are form other products. When run from Cognos Workspace and exported , the filters are shown....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve quality and trackability of (outgoing) HTTP system log error messages

Currently it is difficult to track a failed http message back to a case, because there are no shared ID between those logs. Best option you have is using the timestamps. Please provide an option to put a HTTP Message ID used in the System Log in t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

UI and document should support Chinese Simplified

There are new customers in China for WA. We request WA UI and documents support Chinese Simplified. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Simple folders without settings

When creating a folder you must decide whether digressions are allowed or not. To simplify the top level dialog structure is would be nice to be able to organise nodes in folders without these settings (they would act simply as containers which ha...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Read access during offline backup

Read access during offline backup
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

PAX Report Export Utility control

While trying to Export a Web report, there are options 1. Slice to Excel 2. Snapshot to Excel 3. Export to PDF. Can you provide the facility to disable the option 1 and 2 or is there any way to control the access to option 1&2 from the report?
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IFERROR Function does not work in PAw

We are working on the reports we will be deploying shortly and this a issue with the CAGR concept =IFERROR(F13/F$13,"n/c ") is an example. They work fine in PAx, but when we view them in PAw we get #NAME? errors returned. See attached example. Wil...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BI multitenancy features required for image handling in BI Studios

In a multi-tenant environment end customers need to be fully separated.Currently if Report Studio or Query Studio is available to end customers, adding images to a report shows the same folder content for each customer. Therefore end customers are...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration