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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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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...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 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.
23 days 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.
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
5 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Add the "Set Pack or module option" for Dashboard as it exists for reports

It would be very useful for us if Dashboards could have the same relinking (Pack or Module) option that exists for Reports. Thank you.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

De-couple view window from Excel-sheet

When one opens a view in PAfE, it stays in the front, even when one clicks beside into an Excel cell. One has to minimize the window actively to pull the Excel-sheet to the front. The normal Windows behavior for overlapping windows is, that the on...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Dark mode for Planning Analytics

Just a nice feature to have if IBM can enable dark mode so that TI processes can be developed much like VS Code UI and easy on the eyes as shown below. What I found was utilising the javascript but would be nice to have it permanently.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted