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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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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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Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Access Control Levels

While building solutions for enterprise customers, I need the ability to limit certain documents or portions of documents to end-users. I would like Discovery to get the ACLs from the source document store, and apply those ACLs at search time to e...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Text orientation

Text orientation is not supported from Excel, so when you publish a sheet and view it via PAW the text loses its formatting. This means I have to make the columns extra wide just so the headings are readable.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Simple folders without settings

When creating a folder you must decide whether digressions are allowed or not. To simplify the top level dialog structure is would be nice to be able to organise nodes in folders without these settings (they would act simply as containers which ha...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

System Audit Log for Share Register & Invt Elim Entries

Entries input through function Data Entry - Shareholdings and Investments are not tracked in system audit log.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include an image in the screen tip option

t would be a good idea to store this image somewhere in the webcontent folder in Cognos installation.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Splitting Software Update package upload and pre-check steps

When doing Software Upgrade, ie. when pressing the "transfer" button in Datastudio, idaa server runs a list of 5 steps. The first step is the transfer of upgrade package of 20+GB. This could take long if the package does not locate on USS (some cu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration