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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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338 VOTE

Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted
116 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Drive Explorer - Retain sorting order after clicking refresh and have preferred default sorting setting

Currently within Drive Explorer if you sort by the Last Updated column and then click on the refresh button the view reverts back to sorting by the Name in ASC order. The screen you are in should retain the sorting order you have just selected. In...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Search capabilities to find answers (assistant says)

Imagine a giant corpus where the curator needs to quickly find in which action and step a certain string (response) is located. Today the Assistant search only finds actions by their name and it would be very useful to be able to find steps and an...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration