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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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Allow querying without expansion

Today, when expansions are defined for a collection, the expansions are always applied. However, there are some cases where one would like to submit a query without having it expanded, like a "do not expand" flag. A concrete case is the following:...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Statistical Distribution Bins

There is no good functions for statistics: splitting a distribution into bins.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prevent work in progress being discarded by workspace refresh when PA Workspace requires re-authentication of the user

example for IBM PA on Cloud via IBM SaaS: PA Workspace user authentication expires after some time. It is not transparent for the user when that happens. As a result, the user cannot save work in progress, e.g. workspace explorations that are bein...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PowerPlay should alert user of unsupported browser

Please enhance PowerPlay to warn users when their browser is unsupported. It would help reduce our support load greatly and reduce user frustration with PowerPlay.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full Screen

I would be better if the the program would expand to full screen instantly when you open it.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

"Data Smoother" regression line on plot node isn't able to add value with binary data

When trying to visually understand the relationship between a boolean value compared to a continuous numeric feature, the default and only choice for "data smoothing" is a LOESS regression line. It produces only a line that jumps between both bina...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhanced error messaging when loading external data sources to the input node, specifically SAS datasets with data issues

Currently, there is little to no error messaging given for loading data from SAS datasets containing data that is unable to load. In our case, a SAS dataset dimply fails with no message regarding a large dataset with a single row containing data t...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Infosphere datastage connecting to SCALITY - AWS S3 compatible storage

Hello Team, As per our client requirement, We need to establish the connectivity to SCALITY (AWS S3 compatible storage) from datastage 11.7.1 / 11.7.1.3 to place all our archival files into cloud storage. For that POC, we used S3 connector stage &...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

General Filters need more functionality

The general filters that go at the TOP of the DashBoard need more functionality. They only allow clicking on the options, but there should be options that should be exclusive and unique, por example a Y/N, the filtre should be letting you optional...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

enable Git Source Control for PA on Cloud via IBM SaaS

Git Source Control is at this time only supported for PA local https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD29G_2.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_nfg.2.0.0.doc/pa_nf_model_deployment.html PA on Cloud via IBM SaaS would also benefit greatly from th...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists