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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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Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Dashboard integation with TM1 Planning Analytics

Creating a Dashboard in Cognos Analytics against a TM1/Planning Analytics data source needs better integration. TM1 users become comfortable creating Cube Views so there is an opportunity to integrate the systems by exposing Cube Views in Cognos A...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow for automated migrations from Dev environments to Production (CICD Pipeline)

Allow the automation (CICD Pipleine) to be created between migrating development environment updates to production environment. The current process to run Compare Environment, manually export from dev, manually import to production is not conduciv...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Prevent email notifications for inactive users (when user isEnabled=TRUE)

the solution will improve the security of data / information because they will not be sent to someone who no longer has access to the application (reasons may be different)it will mainly benefit the entity using OpenPages, e.g. a bank
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration

Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Include a pre-provisioned Object storage included in instance and allow this storage to be growable for a fee.

When you provision a SaaS instance of watsonx.data, a default S3/COS/?? 400GB storage should be included and configured with the instance for ease of use. This storage should be growable from to as much as they want for additional fee.
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Add an ability to start a q subscription via MODIFY on the Capture started task

Currently Q Capture subscriptions can be interacted with either via MODIFY command invoked on a Q Capture started task, or SQL insert statements executed on table IBMQREP_SIGNAL. For many customers, executing a MODIFY command to perform an action ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Future consideration

WMLA EDT: Customization, Minimal Example & Documentation

Client asks how to use and customize the elastic distributed training (EDT) feature of WML-A. They explicitly complained about the lack of a detailed documentation (being aware of WMLA/Spectrum Conductor documentation in the knowledge center &...
almost 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration