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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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Attachment of supporting document to journal

There is no functionality to document journal or/and to comment lines in a journal in Cognos Controller. In order to attach supporting documents to journals, the client requested to have that functionality available. It is required to have the com...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

best LLC formation service

If you’re looking to form an LLC, you probably already know that there are many options. Many entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the idea of registering a limited liability company themselves, but also don’t have the budget to hire an attorney. ...
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add the concept of project Owner to complement existing project Creator

In addition to project “creator”, each project should have the opportunity to also maintain the current project “owner”. The concept of project owner is important in context of project Collaboration. A project creator may “leave” a project making ...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Better details in Audit log for Calculate ownership process

I have logged a call with IBM (TS006004206) regarding the details that the audit log show on the Maintain > company structure >calculate ownership as the report is not providing detailed enough information to establish what has changed or ha...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Support rich-text in annotations

Annotations should allow rich-text to provide formatting capabilites like bullet or numbered lists, bold, underlined and italic text and so on.It would be nice to allow ASCIIDoc or Markdown formatting (like in Jira or Gitlab).
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_ENCODE and BASE64_DECODE support

Request for official support of UTL_ENCODE module and.BASE64_ENCODE procedure, that is not documented in Infocenter 10.5 but is available in DB2 LUW. Request for creation and support of UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_DECODE procedure.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

INTERACTIVE SEND BY EMAIL - If the size > defined smtp limit -> then send only the URL/LIN

launching interactively a reportselect prompt if any then choose "select a delivery option"If send by email is selected then there is no option to select only the URL not the attached report the issue is that for report whose size s above the thre...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration