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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.

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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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 9 Not under consideration

Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Use Watsonx to analyze, explain, and convert Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code to Java

The idea is to use IBM’s Watsonx to tackle the challenge of legacy code modernization. Specifically, Watsonx would be leveraged to read and understand Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code. It would provide detailed explainability of the code's funct...
30 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Thread filter in the server log

When watching the live log it is often necessary to focus on a single thread. Currently the search function helps with finding the lines related to a thread but a better solution would be to have a filter next to the already existing filter for Le...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
7 days ago in watsonx.data 1 Under review

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...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Exploration filtering based on table values in IBM PA Workspace (PAW)

Currently, in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), there's no option to filter the exploration based on the string values present in the table. Our users expect it to be available alongside the Sorting function, which works just fine. Please ch...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

OOTB Search is triggered second time on returning to grid view from single edit View

While using OOTB search in day-to-day product enrichment process, users are facing difficulty as search is being triggered multiple times by Product. Below is the use case which users will be performing in Production on daily basis. In Production ...
7 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review