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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.

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DB2 for z/OS Statistics Interval allow at 1 second

DB2 for z/OS Statistics trace interval minimum value is not granular enough for some diagnostic situations. Allowing it to be set a a more granular level would be helpful (lower interval).
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under 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).
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

One View of All Users in Environment

Hi, So, we subscribe to 3 software with IBM Cloud - Planning Analytics, Controller and Cognos Analytics. Users are added in PA and then in Controller. Controller needs that we add users to Controller Users Group in the limited use BI. Since we use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Notification when user accepts invite

Normally we would expect that for an SSO enabled install in cloud, we have a few domains and all of them have been federated. However, in our scenario, like in many other clients' scenario, we have a problem. Not all of our domains are federated. ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dimension selectors to automatically select the first available member

We have used MDX (that refer to cube values) in dimension selector widgets to help users to restrict the available members in selection lists. This works fine except that when user changes a cube value that also changes the members returned by the...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a recycle bin to Cloud Pak For Data user interface

In Cloud Pak for Data assets can be deleted in Projects, Catalogs, Spaces, ... Once they are deleted, you can no longer restore them via the user interface. However, using the Watson Data API there is the possibility to see, delete and restore all...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 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.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a time stamp field for disabled user accounts for OpenPages/Cognos

Requesting an additional field be included the data set found in OPENPAGES_REPORTS_V6>>DEFAULT>>DEFALUT_REL>>MISCELLANEOUS>>USERS_AND_PROFILES that would show the time stamp of when a user account was disabled.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration