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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Unique return code for attempts to grant access to statistical views

When a grant of access to a statistical view is attempted, the error message returned is -551, you lack the authority to do the grant. In actuality, no amount of authority will allow the grant of access to a statistical view.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Extract all properties from Word documents

WDS extract only few properties from a Word document, but some users more properties : example with Manager or Company or Category who are not extracted and indexed.All custom properties used as tags by users are also not extracted and not indexed...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Exploration/Table/List Visualizations with sparklines

Our client requests the following functionality in PA Workspace: Sparklines added to visualizations of Exploration/List/Table style.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Notification via mail on chatmessages

Notify Users on messages that have been posted in a report/dashboard's Chat.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Periodically distribute a created Report (e.g. pdf) via Mail/Job

Distribute a created Report via Job periodically to consumers/people abroad.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Directly create/delete single user-Accounts in Admin Panel.

Our client requests the following functionality in PA Workspace:Directly create/delete single User-Account in Admin Panel.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Synchronize Dimensions between specific objects/visualizations

A client/end user requests the functionality of Synchronization of Dimensions between specific Objects in PA Workspace. Additional to already implemented synchronization of dimensions per page or book our client asked for a sync. between objects o...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Lockable/Static Visualizations

A client/end user requests the functionality of lockable/static visualizations in PA Workspace:Specific Users/Groups should not be able to change the 'settings'/properties/selected sets of given visualizations in dashboards or reports.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

can we make file connector to read file only in directory with name matched to the wildcard pattern

The File connector is unable to read expected partitions data : Expected to read data from all partitions excluding part_num=0, but it is reading data from part_num=1, part_num=10, part_num=11, part_num=12 and part_num=2 only. Expected Format as p...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Set scrollable area height for lists in other metric units (like percentage, cm, etc.)

On some occasions we make a scrollable report for customers. In this situation the reports we make contains one or more lists with a lot of items where the customer can scroll to find his information. Because not all users have the same computer m...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration