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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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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

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 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