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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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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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Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS along with support for 9.x

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS support along with support for 9.x when the first LTS version is available (for both on-prem and Azure)
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability re-process documents without re-ingestion

Currently we need to re-ingest documents to update any enrichment. This is specifically not very practical when we have WKS model involved. If the model is refined & updated, we need to re-ingest the docs. This is very annoying for customers h...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

More information & transparency about deployment process of Shiny App needed - Watson Machine Learning

Currently when promoting a Shiny App from Watson Studio to Watson Machine Learning and deploying this Shiny App in Watson Machine Learning there is only little feedback over the progress of the deployment. This is making it difficult troubleshooti...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Organize Application and Plan

Currently in the section Application and Plan is not possible to create folders to organize applications as it's possible to do in Reports and Analysis This is not allowing a clean and easy structure for users when multiple access/markets requires...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

job comparison between different environments (like in 11.7)

Currently in 11.7 - there is an option to compare the jobs between different environments. It helps to identify what actually changed comparing to the production copy and helps for UAT. The same options is missing in CP4D.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release