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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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Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

GDSN, Change the way a CHANGE_BY_REFRESH kind of message is being handled. It is now being saved multiple times.

When recieving a CHANGE_BY_REFRESH type of message in the WWRE and passing that to the Global Local Catalog with create trade items, the tradeitems are being saved multiple times. It look like if the items get saved as many times as there are cate...
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Export Watson Assistant Usage Information

I'm currently working on a Watson Assistant project and need to export the chatbot usage information presented in the 'Overview' section of Watson Assistant's 'Improve' tab. This section contains graphs and metrics outlining the bot engagement, bu...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

ability to programatically "apply" an SSL/MA configuration

We are using an SSL/Mutual Authentication configuration, and have written a utility that helps automate the conversion of a non-SSL/MA configuration to an SSL/MA one. For a single server install, everything works great. For a 3-tier install, we ar...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
almost 3 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Report output page options should be available for reports with Full interactivity=No, in Edit Mode

We are unable to see the following options in the report output page, when we run the report from Edit mode in HTML/PDF, for reports having 'Run with full interactivity'='No'. • ‘Run as’• Save• Refresh which means that a report developer cannot sa...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration