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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Pause and Resume compute resources

Ability to pause and resume compute resources per the needs of the application.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Planned for future release

Allow user to save and deploy Turicreate based Coreml models.

Allow user to save and deploy Turicreate based Coreml models in watson machine learning.
about 7 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 3 Not under consideration

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Applications using book tabs as resources (not the whole book)

When you create a new section on a given application, the only option you have is to include a full book as a resource. If possible, for user experience reasons, it would be nice if we could apply Book Tabs as application resources. Let's say we h...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste Ignore Rule Calculated Cells

The ability to copy paste multiple cells of data across a section of cells that contains some rule derived cells. This would reduce the time required to enter data by reducing the amount of times we have to copy paste to avoid the rule derived cells.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Text to Speech voice testing greater than 100 characters

Currently in the environment Phone integration section of assistant, Text to Speech tab, there is a testing section. This section limits testing text input to 100 characters. The ask is to provide a way for a person testing voices on this screen t...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Save to Any Network Location when Scheduling Cognos Report

Currently in Cognos Analytics we only have the option to save a report as XLS, PDF, etc, to any network location when running the report interactively. When scheduling and saving a report to XLS we're limited to what network location we've specifi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration