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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.

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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Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Folder Navigation for Data-Sets and Data-Modules should be user-friendly. More like a Folder tree should be there which can clicked easily. Drill down approach wastes a lot of time.

The Folder Navigation for Data-Sets and Data-Modules feature enhances user experience by introducing an intuitive, clickable folder tree structure. This eliminates the need for time-consuming drill-down approaches, allowing users to quickly access...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Customize the root folder holding the user-specific PAfE folders and files

Planning Analytics for Excel / PAfE creates user-specific folder and files, for instance the user-specific configuration files CognosOfficeReportingSettings.xml CommManagerSettings.xml, in a user-specific folder "Cognos\Office Connection" which is...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Removing excess space from the report in PAW

Problem Statement: We have developed a dynamic active form report for users, allowing them to select parameters such as Year and Department. When users select “Total Departments”, the report dynamically adjusts and utilizes the entire available sp...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Allow the currentPackageSet property for insert buffering to be set in platform connections for DB2WH & DB2 to leverage performance improvements.

During Performance Load Testing with Db2Wh Gen3 LMCO noticed major performance improvements when enabling Db2 server side Insert Buffering :https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-enable-db2-server-side-insert-buffering-jdbc-type-4-applications But ...
21 days ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Create Collections within Collections through the Assistant interface

A useful feature to organize and separate journeys within collections that need to be grouped together in the Assistant development. Related to the idea
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Implementation of the ability to add conditions and configure Disambiguation and Digression for all Actions in a collection.

In the assistant interface in Actions, it is not possible to add conditions at the folder/collection level. It would be helpful to disable topic changes or manage disambiguation without having to access each Action individually. This functionality...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Improvement of an Intent array by adding the name of an action and the description available as a property to be accessed.

When the customer accesses the 'intents' property, it returns the Action ID instead of the registered Action name. Returning the action's Id, name and description would be useful for working with product usage metrics through taxonomies linked dir...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Use variable_path as an option for session variables

In Assistant Dialog mode, it was possible to create more robust functions using Spel (<? ?>) and manipulating JavaScript properties. This approach avoided the need to process this information beforehand in Expressions within context variable...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted