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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.

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Allow Status Updates on Homepage

The user community has asked that we display a message somewhere on our homepage to reflect the datetime of when data was last pulled from our ERP system. We have the datetime available in a cube already. I would like to display that on the homepa...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

AI Assistant on the welcome page

To use AI Assistant, the user needs to be inside a data model or data package. However; it would be more efficient if it can be displayed on the welcome screen so the user can use AI Assistant to navigate and browse entire data sets and select one...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Active reports .mht viewing alternative

With IE not supported soon, allow any browser to view standalone active reports
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Export the analysis project to a zip file including Models and Modeler flows

In CP4D 2.5, user can not export models and modeler flows by "Exporting a project to desktop". Only data assets, notebooks, and Data Refinery flows can be included in exported zip file. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ja/SSQNUZ_2.5.0/...
about 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Control DEFER YES/NO based on type of index

Provide mask to control the DEFER setting based on the UNIQUERULE(SYSINDEXES) of the index (either via REXX or standalone). Currently the REXX won’t handle this because the Db2 catalog row sent to masking is the SYSINDEXPART row which doesn’t cont...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Controller Web – IC Reconciliation reports by dimension

I would like to highlight the importance of having the possibility in Controller Web to run IC reports by certain Extended Dimension. We would like to move to the Web version, but without that functionality it does not make sense. Otherwise, we ne...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Include Accounting Format for currency values

Like the Currency format, the Accounting format is used for monetary values. But, this format aligns the currency symbols and decimal points of numbers in a column. In addition, the Accounting format displays zeros as dashes and negative numbers i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release