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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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Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Update references for derived query items when changing the query operation/reference

For advanced reports it is essential to operate with derived queries. Such queries are using a query operation (like join, union etc.) or a query reference as the data source. You often get to the point where you need to make changes to your deriv...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics For MS Office

We downloaded the latest version of Cognos Analytics for MS office and connected it to Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 environment. We tried to import the report to PowerPoint. We found we couldn't import 11.1 style visualization to PowerPoint. It shows b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support of encrypted fields by Anonymization API

OpenPages 8.0.0.1 introduced the capability to anonymize data through a set of API methods. These methods do not work on encrypted fields, meaning that there is currently no way to anonymize data if it is stored in fields that are encrypted.When s...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Not under consideration

Date Prompt in Dashboards (Slider or Date Box)

Currently we don't have this capability on Dashboards.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Able to copy data protection rule.

We would like to have the ability to copy data protection rule(s) within the UI.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information