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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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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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PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Implement ability to force terminate PAfE executions on TM1 Server

In certain situations, we have observed that PAfE executions cannot be cancelled through TM1Top or through the CancelOperation method within REST API. These threads subsequently block dimension updates (READ locks prevent all other WRITE actions, ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Bar charts conditional formatting in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

Despite the fact that over time more formatting options for visualizations in PA Workspace have become available, there is still no option to set conditional formatting for bar charts in a way that allows the color to depend on the value. Our user...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Implement multiple warnings prior to altering the database schema in the system setup section. Additionally, provide the capability to revert to the previous database schema, enabling users to retrieve prior evaluations.

Utility: The significance lies in the fact that modifying the schema currently results in the loss of all prior evaluations, without an option for retrieval. This enhancement aims to safeguard time and projects from potential loss, particularly in...
7 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted