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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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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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Customize on demand tool bar (right click toolbar menu)

Need the ability to modify the right click/on demand menu toolbar on a report/dashboard, to only allow some of the items for users to choose.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
11 months ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ForceReevaluationOfFeedersOnDimensionChange

Data got incorrectly calculated / underfed due to a dimension structure change, either: An element moved from another hierarchy to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. A new element added to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. The...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

MDX Object Type for Picklists

Picklists are a powerful tool when designing front ends. Currently we have to create a subset to hold an MDX expression to drive the user selection. As the complexity of the front-ends increase the volume of public subsets that need to be pre-crea...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Adding Trusted or Endorsement badge to Data Modules

We would like to have the ability for Central IT Teams to share 'Trusted or Endorsed' Data Modules (maybe add a badge?) for our end-users to either consume the data module as stand-alone data module or for using it with their custom Data Module. W...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration