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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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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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Email notification: Add an option "on who should be notified when a report fails and also to include the report execution status like Success/Fail in the notification"

Currently, we don't get any notification when a report (either scheduled or non scheduled report like for batch mode report execution) fails so it should be good if we can have "add an option on who should be notified when a report fails for the e...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create and maintain Metric cubes from Workspace

It was mentioned on the Designing Workspace UIs in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace event on 29/10/2020 that the Metric chart will be added back into workspace after it was removed for the Cognos Analytics charting engine. If Metrics are coming ba...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Applications or plans should be able to reference a particular page in a PAW book

When adding an asset to an application or plan, there is no ability to select an individual tab in a book. The default behavior is to select the first tab in the book. Often books have multiple tabs in them, and these may be used in different appl...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Resize and position items using percents or pixels

Currently the size and position of objects in Workspace can only be done by drag and drop, which is not very accurate. This makes it hard to create a uniform appearance. Therefore it would be better to be able to Resize and position items using pi...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

VS Code Extension for IBM Data Virtualization Manager

Recently , there is a wide adoption of VS Code IDE among the developer community , a VS Code extension of IBM DVM with all the functions as similar to DVM Studio.
6 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restart Time of DB2 should not be dependent on SCA size

During restart of DB2, the time difference between DSNR003I and DSNR004I is a function of the SCA size. Case TS009645595 was opened and has all the details. But in summary: this large time differenece of 30 seconds (in our case) is a function of t...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

no "ok" button when changing properties on a report

There is no "ok" button after changing properties on a report. You aren't sure if the change was applied after it's made. The button existed in Cognos 10.2. Sometimes the change is applied and sometimes not. You have to go back and check.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

enable on-line documentation in DOC Decision Optimization Center

It would be great to add online-documentation for each view displayed in Decision Optimization Center Client (Planner). The developers could therefore easily add description of the views that considerably help end-users to understand which kind of...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration