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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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Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Heat Map requires a Red Amber Green colour palette range

The standard for heat map colouring is a RAG colour range, at the moment the palettes are shades of a single colour from light to dark. The Metrics chart that was recently removed used these principals for charting a Scorecard
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Need the ability to copy collection configuration and data from one environment to another

The backup and restore script in Watson Discovery allows you to copy all collection configuration and data from one environment to another. However, it is not possible to copy date for a specific collection. This feature is useful when collections...
6 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Need a crawler in Watson Discovery to crawl documents from Confluence

Confluence is a popular repository that many companies use. Currently there is no option to crawl Confluence documents.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

The Watson Discovery Web crawler should be able to crawl sites protected by ForgeRock Authentication SSO.

Currently the web crawler is not able to crawl sites protected by complicated protocol like SAML or OAuth, hence ForgeRock SSO Authentication does not work.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Clean Dimensions after Element Deletion

When in debug logging, it was noticed that deleted elements in dimensions would throw errors on cube load. e.g 9/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube Loading body for cube }StatsByRule 21116 Debug 07/29/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube.Loading Could not find element "Gen S...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

No Column Information shown when viewing Indexes

When exploring Indexes, when an Index is selected, It shows a great many things about the Index, except it does not show the Columns that make up that index. I have went to different views (Dependencies, Alter) but the Columns that make up the ind...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Define Default Filters with same method used for "public filters" or "my filters"

When you define a “default filter” in the grid view of an object type, it is now only possible to select criteria based on “enumerated field”. We want to define "default filters" on the grid view in the same way we define "public filters" or "my f...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Provide option to control the bypassing of the authorization checking for mapping objects when dbname is used in REORG job

Implicit mapping objects are seen as transient as they get created and dropped within the duration of the REORG. Therefore REORG logic was enhanced to bypass the authorization checking for it (PI08339). These objects might be transient and interna...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration