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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Control PAW Application Announcements over TM1

Only a PAW Admin can create Announcements in a Application. It also has to be done manually. It would be helpful to generate a announcement automatically. For that it would be practical to use a cube/view as source for the announcements.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PPT and DOCX Viewer in PAW

It is possible to share a document via link in PAW. It would be helpful if PAW can display the common file types like PPT and DOCX directly in a Book.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompt Pages does not look same as 10x version

Multi select value prompt is not behaving as expected when there are default values mentioned.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add permissions to allow a User to upgrade Discovery environment size

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Discovery ins...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Color-coding report tabs

Report pages can be rendered as tabs in Reporting. However, it is not easy to differentiate one page from another. It would be easier if the tabs could be formatted with different colors
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Correct filename when exporting report to PDF

When opening a report in PDF and try to download it, the filename is always "ext.pdf", no matter, which report is being opened. This issue occurs only in Internet Explorer, when doing the same steps in Chrome for example - the filename is "report_...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add toggle to change values from Axis into percentages

Add toggle to change axis dataformat in chart from values to percentages and vice-versa
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When Exporting Jobs Records Do Not Sort Them

Sorting the job records adds quite a bit of overhead to the export process.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow selective email overrides for the Notification Default Sender

Users who initiate a burst report, have the default email address taken from Cognos Configuration under "Notifications". Several users would like to be able to override the default email address with their company email address. Currently this ove...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration