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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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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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Sum row in PAfE

A totals line is desired in the exploration in PAfE. Currently, only totals columns are possible.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add Comboboxes as new prompting control

This is a request of a new Prompting control which is a combination of the existing text box prompt (type-in), value prompt (drop down) and search & select prompt. The user should be able to select a value within the text box. A source / stati...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make authentication cache independent from IDM calls

It is useful to keep the authentication working fine using the data from the cache even in case IDM has problems or is unavailable. Today, the authentication cache provided by Db2 is able to speed up the authentication process, but if we have issu...
9 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Under review

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to define range for the Colors within Dashboard Color Palette

Currently Color Palette for the Dashboard Visualizations allows to define Custom Colors (along with the predefined Color Palettes available) with Low to High range of values but cannot define what the Low and High Values are.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

VS Code hosted integrated in Watson Studio

Many data science code development tasks are analytical and can be done through the notebooks available. There are however tasks that require more sophisticated code develpment for which notebooks are not as suitable. For these it would be benef...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Perform worflow actions through Email Notifications

For workflow stage, an email notification could be sent to Assignees. In that email notification, if links or buttons for all the available actions of that stage could be provided, it would help increase the usability of the system by a fair margi...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists