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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Hide Summary option on a by-Summary basis

In Dashboards and Stories, there is currently no way to control which Summaries in Tables and Crosstabs are displayed or hidden. Currently, the option is to either display all or hide all even though all of the summaries generated may not be relev...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Improved field calculation engine that calculates and stores values prior to List view.

Require improved Computed Fields calculation engine that carries out field calculation and stores in order for already stored values to be read and displayed in a list view (so they can be sorted by) rather than sorting on the fly. Currently: 1....
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Alter of Table with Clone without outage (DROP/RECREATE) not allowed in Admin Tool

We have a Table with a clone table defined and want to change the base table! Scenario: Dropping columns A and B, dropping unique index on column A and define unique Index on Column C. This scenario is not possible with Admin Tool without an outag...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable additional Watson services as optional enrichments

As part of enriching documents ingested into Discovery, users have indicated the need augment existing NLU enrichments with additional Watson services. Specifically, a user wanted to use personality insights and NLC to help surface insights on con...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Request twice daily backup for Planning Analytics Data

IBM is backing up the data tier on Planning Analytics once a day. We would suggest this be increased to twice a day.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a monitoring table function to return transaction ids along with their commit times.

Goldman Sachs needs to know all the insert/update/delete operations against all tables updated by 1000s of applications along with their commit times. They dont want to use a replication. They want to use triggers that will be triggered on I/U/D o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard panels that are defined by profile in the Standard UI should translate over to the TFUI/Dashboard .

Because of this limitation, an Admin cannot create dashboards for profiles. When an organization has many users and wants consistency with some of the dashboards there is no bulk solution. End users must create their own dashboards in the TFUI or...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Functionality already exists