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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Re-order Dimensions on a Cube via a Turbo Integrator Function

We have systemised approaches to building cubes and dimensions within Planning Analytics, this includes automatically building cubes from source systems and adding dimensions to cube after they have been built. Unfortunately when rebuilding these ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

Support JMX metric Statistics for Kafka Consumer for IBM TCC Library product

It would be most helpful for Kafka performance tuning if there was a JMX metrics report for the Kafka consumer to analysis JMX stats for latency report. Could we dump the JMX values to a file the user provides as part of the IBM TCC Library API? T...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Option to open a dashboard with filter panel collapsed

I would like the ability to open a dashboard with the dashboard filters panel collapsed until the user selects the option to expand the filters panel.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Action Button Synchronise with cell of view.

We want the ability to click on a cell in a cube view and use the dimension context in an Action Button in PAW. Currently this can be achieved in a Websheet using the Advanced options "Selected DBRW" option, but not in a PAW view/book. An example ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

HIPAA compliant for Watsonx.ai

We have some of the Health System customers looking for Gen AI solutions. Due to lack of HIPAA compliant, we are not able to sell and go thru the internal security approvals for x.ai and x.gov.
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Add job group filter to bhist

The ability to find job groups via bhist command after the jobs have been removed from memory.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration