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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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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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Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

Ability to auto upload custom theme and extension

We need the ability to auto upload custom theme and extension instead of performing manual steps.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request for New DataStage Project Role -- DataStage Monitor

Request for a New DataStage Project Role -- "DataStage Monitor". Currently the existing 4 DataStage Project Roles does not cover all the user case criteria that our Team has. GIS Compliance and Internal Bank Policies mandate that DataStage Develop...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Change position for group of widgets

In Planning Analytics Workspace Current behavior: When we group multiple widgets together, Changing the position for the group using properties the position assigned to all widgets inside the group not to the group position. Steps to reproduce: 1-...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Share report output with e-mail

In Cognos 10, we could e-mail from within a runned report and even a ad-hoc analyze from workspace advanced, In Cognos Analytics 11 This feature is missing.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Downloading PAW book in any format captures only the segment visible in the frame & truncates the remaining areas.

The current book Sharing (PDF, Image, PPT) capability renders snapshot of PAW book that fits in the widget not all rows and columns.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Vertical Scroll Bar color in List Visualization

In Dashboarding the List Visualization displays a vertical scroll bar. When using a dark color background for the List Visualization the scroll bar remains white. This makes the Visualization visually unappealing. Request that the scroll bar color...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for re-try / reconnect mechanism

We'd like to request Replication to have re-try / reconnect mechanism even without MQ multiple instances. Because currently it doesn’t support MQ multiple instances, we can use SLB, but if it has no re-connect, we can do nothing.