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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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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,

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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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Option to collapse all queries

In bigger reports with a lot of queries (>10), the queries a shown by default unfolded. In these situations you want the same collapse options as in the data source to collapse all unfolded item once.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve "Create custom filter/filter condition" window by bringing back scrollbar and multiselect

The "create custom filter" is improved a lot, however. The choice to replace the scrollbar into a page up/down button is in our experience clumsy. When you have a list with for example customer names, using the page down button to navigate through...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RTM: Add automation option to perform license & cluster devices automation after maintenance

when "Add Graph Frequency" of LSF clusters or License services are set to a day, is it possible to schedule the add graph process (devices update) at the end of the maintenance window. should be linked to RFE 72420
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Have automation run serially per cluster and license device

to avoid devices update conflict and server perf degradation, serialize license services and LSF clusters update (mainly when update frequency is set to a day). should by linked with RFE 72419.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Source IP address filtering feature for "public" Watson services

Our company requires every external applications service to add an additional authentication method other than the apikey authentication. For example: token based 2 factor authentication, client certificate authentication or source IP address filt...
almost 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

PAW admin access with segregated security for each tab (Life Cycle Manager)

PAW admin access is required to use Life Cycle Manger Admin access grants permission to manage other features/databases etc. Our project has 60 instances in each environment with dedicated infra support team (Admins) Application Team manages...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View specified version history directly from the job for each report

When a scheduled job has not run, it’s too complicated to view the reason behind it. First you have to find out the location of the report (report path is not visible in the job). Next step is to go to the report properties and choose for “view ve...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open Powerplay reports into Analysis Studio is deprecated between versions 11.1.1 to 11.1.5

Cognos 11.1.1 had the feature where it was opening any powerplay reports into Analysis studio which is not available in Cognos 11.1.5
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to open more than one job simultaneously

A huge benefit of Cognos Analytics is the ability to open more than one report simultaneously. This isn't working for jobs, so it's difficult when you want compare jobs to each other.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to set the selected approval hierarchy in the application

The hierarchy is now always collapsed. I have users that are annoyed with the fact that they always have to expand the workflow nodes to get to where they are to work. Some users are wrong and enter data at higher levels instead of the lowest, bec...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration