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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Greek Language to be added in the Assistant and Discovery products

We are under discussion with one of our customers about an Assistant solution that will help their technicians to work more efficient and resolve their issues faster. The documents are in Greek and English language, and this is a limitation in com...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Search capabilities to find answers (assistant says)

Imagine a giant corpus where the curator needs to quickly find in which action and step a certain string (response) is located. Today the Assistant search only finds actions by their name and it would be very useful to be able to find steps and an...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Waterfall visualization - legend labels should be localized for any output format

The waterfall visualization is only localized when using HTML output.Other output formats like PDF generates for example legend labes only in English. Neither product nor content language has any impact. Alternative the labels should be customizab...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization localization should be triggered by content language

Actually the Waterfall visualization uses product language to localize information.We noticed that the language chosen for the legend label depends on product language. Furthermore the legend label is hard coded in English when report out is not H...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

KPI visualization in reporting

The KPI widget in dashboarding is a much used visualization. It gives a lot of insight, without using much realestate. However it isn't available in reporting. Having the visualization available in reporting would enhance the reporting experience ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Adding Job Steps - Favourites Option

When adding a Job Step to a Job, the user currently has the option of selecting from My Content or Team Content. When reports are buried deep down in a hierarchy of folders, this makes them hard to locate. Please add an option to select from Favou...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

UPS API's response message should be displayed in the GCP logs.

Currently, the UPS API status code is being logged in GCP. It would be helpful to also include the response message alongside the status code in the logs for better traceability and debugging.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Allow SSO for reporting images in backend reports

Customers wish to have central cloud locations that use credentialed sign on to pull images for reports and not have the reports be ran in the browser.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration