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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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Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Make multiple DDL changes transactional

Why is it useful? When complex changes are made in DDL and one of the changes fails, it can get pretty hard to revert the issue. Who would benefit from it? Implementing this idea would tremendously help database administrators. How should it work?...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Export Data Protection Rules

Include an option to export data protection rules. In 3.5.3 there is only an option to export governance rules.
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

PAW - Synchronization on several tabs

Hi, On PAW, dimensional synchronization is only possible on a single tab, but it would be interesting to be able to synchronize dimensions on several tabs, so as not to have to redefine all the selections from one tab to another. Best regards, Romain
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Be able to easy do a multi select in a view in PAW.

It should be possible to create a multi select, i.e a subtotal, as easy as it is to create a subset when using views in PAW.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Save As for a TI Processes in PAW?

Today there is the only a save button inside the TI Editing window in PAW. A "Save As" button would be useful.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Custom Auth/Authz layer support

US Federal Government customer has their own custom authorization layer for applications. Internally they support an ABAC based infrastructure. Therefore they have a more complex authorization layer than standard roles/groups. Need to have the abi...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists