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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On the Web Console for Cloud version allow for calendar functionality for Auto pause and shutdown

Currently the auto pause is either ON or OFF. HoweverNHS scotland want to make auto pause at different times of the day but have different behaviour for Monday to Friday with different parameters at the weekend. Hence a calendar function for speci...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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

Scheduling Reports

Now you have the possibility to schedule one report with one schedule rule. My suggestions is to create a multiple schedule for one report. My suggestion to resolve this problem is with an option of multiple schedules and with this two options: - ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Related Content Tab in Business Terms should present respective data type for each Data Asset Column and an option to print a .csv file

When the related content (Related Content Tab in Business Terms gov artifact) is a Data Asset Column type, its presentation must be accompanied by its respective data type. In addition, there must be the option to print a csv file for that generat...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Bulk actions

I am having to action 50 tasks individually. Considerable time taken. Please consider the following: to manually reset all submissions without save as workaround to manually activate/disable all tasks in a plan
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

TM1Web Pictorial Chart

Charting is very demanding requirement these days, PAW at the moment has limited features, TM1Web's chart is still by far the most flexible and easier for Finance users to create their charts. Pictorial Chart has a growing trend in Excel user comm...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration