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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Allow mixed case for userids for Cognos/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Submitted

Extend the Sandbox functionality to Dynamic and Custom Reports

Extend the Sandbox functionality to Dynamic and Custom Reports, as it was available with TM1 Perspectives
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 4 Planned for future release

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration
107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release