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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.

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 export/import Controller Web Review Reports

Inside Controller classic, it is not possible to export "Reports Web". Specifically, there is not an option for this when exporting structures. => Therefore it is currently not possible to export/import Controller Web Review Reports. Please can...
14 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Submitted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted OR ... any visual indicator of if a record in WD has been updated, for eg: may be additional field in the WD index showing the update timesta...
14 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Column reordering functionality

This is a requirement to give a functionality to the users to reorder the columns in the html report output and ability to download that into excel / pdf versions. This is also one of the requirement being requested by Business on one of the project.
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow comments to defined risk lists to be loaded when entries are uploaded with a file

Currently, when a defined risk list is loaded with a file, only the main item of the list can be auto-loaded, comments to this item can be input only manually, which basically means the client will either have to do this for hundreds and thousands...
27 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Informix V15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Features - Inactivity timeout for Planning Analytics as a Service - AWS

A customer using Planning Analytics as a Service on AWS wants to extend the inactivity timeout to 90 minutes. However, there is no option to do this in the Administration/Features section of PAW AWS version 2.0.99, unlike what is available in Plan...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration
206 VOTE

Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review