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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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'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Korn-Graubard CIs

The Korn-Graubard method to create confidence intervals is the recommended method for the NHANES survey. SPSS Complex Surveys does not offer that method. It would be helpful for that too be added as an option.
about 1 month ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
2 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enhance the "Schema filter" field functionality for IBM Cloud Database for MongoDB.

It would be beneficial if this field could display a list of available schemas, as currently, a connection cannot be created without populating the "Schema filter" field. Often, users may not know the exact schema name in advance, so it would be i...
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Master Data Explorer UI should provide entity count pre-search no matter the version

It gives any data consumer a glimpse into the entity count ahead, instead of the NaN count that we see today in 4.8.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted