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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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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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Improvements to Assistant AI

I feel the assistant is a step in the right direction, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience. Instead of relying on specified data sets, I'd like to define a series of default datasets that should be used unless otherwise sp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Provide Export/Report of customized Features

Need an method to compare the customized Features between environments (Dev/QA/Prod). Currently, updating Features (Manage --> Accounts --> Cognos.... then under group properties, Customization tab, Features) is a manual process and must be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Content Store database to be stored in Always On High Availability SQLServer.

Please support the Content Store DB within SQL Server Always On - High Availability. We have proved this does work using MSSQL JDBC driver 6.4, on Cognos Analytics 11R11, however it should be supported officially by IBM.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

further options and possibilities for the bubble chart

Hello, if I look right, so now, it is only possible to assign some keyfigures to the X/Y-achsis and to the size. Is it in plan to extend the possibilities for this chart, e.g. to define the basis for the size, to define min and max values, to edit...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simple CDC Password Change process for Oracle Target

We are now required per compliance rules to change the password for any application ID every 30 days. We have identified steps to complete this task but they are very cumbersome and time consuming, introducing a great amount of risk and labor to m...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration