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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
over 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

disable email notification during cognos startup

"disable email notification during cognos startup"Currently, there is no proper way to switch off this functionality.I believe that this functionality would not be use friendly if there is no proper way to switch off or change the email recipient.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change Services Name to MarketPlace and Location to under Resources

The little button that if you put your cursor onver it says Services is not prominent enough on the real estate. It needs to be moved most likely to Resources top of list - and call it MarketPlace - We continue have move and more partner add ones ...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Geographic Location properties for township, section, range, quarter when setting representation to Goegraphic

Currently when you load a file, create a date module from a file or do an exploration from a file you can't selection the Township, range, section or quarter as a geographic representation. So if I want to show the top producing oil and/or gas w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Query Service and Content Administration Task Status Notifications

As an administrator, I would like the ability to be notified via e-mail of the completion status for scheduled query service and content administration tasks. Scenario #1: Dynamic Cubes member/data cache refreshes are performed by a scheduled quer...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open the book with the comment

When I open a book and someone else is editing that book, I want to see a message that the book is being edited. (When I edit a book and want to save it, I notice when someone else opens and edits the same book at the same time)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete books or views

If I delete a book or view by mistake, I have no chance to recover it. (it will be deleted forever, I need recycle bin for PAW)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration