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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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239 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Add all leaves to advance synchronization options

Add all leaves as an option for when you have a hierarchy that consists of more level and you still want it to show all leaves
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release
260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
13 days ago in Data Lineage 1 Future consideration

Request to leverage the connection to Denodo to automatically populate custom attributes for Information Governance Mapping in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges:We currently manage around 10-15 custom attributes manually in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC). However, the data for these attributes resides in Denodo, leading to inefficiencies and the potential for errors during man...
13 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
13 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...

Please provide a bresources option where we can find the default reservation unit per defined resource: job, task, host

Currently, it's not strait forward for a user to be able to see what the default reservation units are for things like memory, swap, license resources, etc. It would be nice if there were a bresources option to show the default allocation unit's f...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration