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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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ADD CHUNK' OPERATION SHOULD RETURN WARNING THAT LEVEL 0 ARCHIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE

An 'add dbspace' operation returns the following warning upon completion: ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done. An 'add chunk' operation just returns 'chunk successfully added'. An 'add chunk' operation should also ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Traffic light Status Icon in circle shape

Could you please help us to get the Traffic light status icons only as circle shape for all color green, red, yellow . Currently we have traffic light status as Green icon in Circle shape, Red icon as square shape, Yellow icon as diamond shape. Pl...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 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).
over 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.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Use a Ctrl-Click to open PAW Items in a new tab?

Is it possible to modify PAW to open the selected item in a new browser tab when the control key (on windows) is held down when the hyperlink is clicked – just like all other hyperlinks? For example, it would be great to be able to click on “Admin...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Azure SQL Server as a database option for Cognos Command Center

Currently Cognos Command Center only allows connection to SQL Server through either integrated or SQL authentication. With growing popularity of the Microsoft Azure SQL Server it will be extremely useful if such connection option can be added with...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable or disable cache setting globally

Currently we can enable or disable the cache setting at individual report/dashboard/Data Module level. Sometimes this cache setting helps in improving performance and some time disabling it helps the performance improvement. If such setting is ava...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Add justification options to widget titles

We can add titles to widgets (slider and select value filters), but the titles are only left justified. Add ability to choose left, center, or right justification
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - Package - Run egosh/soamview on non cluster hosts

We would like to run tools such as soamview and egosh on hosts that are not members of the cluster in order to administer them remotely.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration