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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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338 VOTE

Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic HTML inside web chat

Currently you can only display static HTML when introduced into the "Assistant says" tab. I would like to be able to embed JS scripts to be able to display interactive plots (like the ones done with plotly)
9 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Versioning of JS files

Whenever there is a deployment IPM end users need to clear cache otherwise IPM login does not work with SSO. After clearing cache it works fine. Also sometimes after Fix Pack upgrade or any UI changes, we have to explicitly ask the users to clear ...
9 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Bring back the stats cubes

Hi, Request to bring back the }stats cubes as they provided important information about memory usage and other performance statistics by IBM. removal of these cubes has left a void in debugging the system performance. thanks Saurabh
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
16 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 6 Needs more information

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
25 days ago in Db2 1 Submitted
116 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Use Watsonx to analyze, explain, and convert Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code to Java

The idea is to use IBM’s Watsonx to tackle the challenge of legacy code modernization. Specifically, Watsonx would be leveraged to read and understand Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code. It would provide detailed explainability of the code's funct...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration