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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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Add IBM Cloud Private Path as a connection type in the Common Core

We would like to demonstrate by IBM TechxcHange in October 2024 how we can integrate watsonx.ai cloud service with IBM Cloud Workloads connected via the IBM private network. Workloads include VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL etc or anything workload ...
5 months ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

SQLCODE -20528 SQLCODE20528N

CCB occasionally received SQLCODE -20528. As stated in DB2 CODES manual, this can occur while two transactions trying to update a row in system-period temporal table closely. A row being moved to history table can have sys_start higher than sys_en...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Planned for future release

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Include Master/Detail property to 11.1 Visualisations

Master/Detail relationship has always existed in Report Studio. But he is missing in the latest news visualization. This is a basic feature of Cognos and I do not understand how it is possible that it has not been implemented. it is necessary to...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

11.1 Visualization options that are in legacy charts

11.1 visuals should have features of legacy charts. Categorical and value baselines (static and based on query calculation). Should be able to have background (region) colors in charts (static values, percentages, and layout calcs). Additional axi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Freely Move Legends on Visuals (Not specific locations)

Users need the ability to freely move the legend to maximize space when building a dashboards. The do not like being restricted to (top, bottom, left, right) as sometimes there are more ideal legend positions that help to maximize information dens...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Stop and start Query Engine via the interface

To reduce cost and energy consumption, it will be great to stop and start manually the query engines via the interface, or the shutdown automatically after x minutes of inactivity, and wake up on request (similar to wake on lan). We could have mul...
10 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release