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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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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 ...
about 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 ...
about 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...
about 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...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Allow calling Watson AI APIs in-process rather than as a remote API call

A frequent ask is to allow calling the Watson AI APIs in the same process. For example, if you have a spark or pandas dataframe containing a news story per row, if would be great if each row could be mapped to a local Watson AI function call rathe...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection: enable double-click on elipses from Search results to open or go to the objects parent location

when searching for objects, the results list has '/../' that when hovered over, displays the path for the object.Add ability to double click on the '/../' that opens or takes me to the objects parent location.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Cognos for MS Office access via admin security

Ability to control if a user can use Cognos for Office plugin can be used.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RTM: add grid cache directory purge feature

currently, the directory use for job graphs (specified in the "Console->Grid Settings->Paths->Grid Cache Dir" field) is never clean up. can you please add feature to purge this directory to avoid disk space saturation ?
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Ability to customize default selection color in Active reports

Color customization for the container select and mouse hovering needs to be incorporated into report studio.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler to support FlexNet Manager

License Scheduler parses the output of lmstat to "know" the relationship between job and license. The limitation is that lmstat doesn't provide sufficient information and it has chance that LS cannot accurately knows that which job is holding whic...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration