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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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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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Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Abiity to add Notification Popup on Logon

The Popup screen on Logon with a detailed message including links would be useful for Admin team to post messages to End User. Usecases include below 1) Customers have releases with various changes scheduled on a frequent basis. It can be highligh...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Snowflake support in JDBC Query Consumer

There are many cases where customers are utilizing Snowflake as one of their data sinks. This increased utilization also creates situations where the customer will also need to pull data from Snowflake, utilizing a custom query which could join ta...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Hive-HDFS Connector Impersonation Support.

In watsonx.data, all Hive-HDFS data is accessed with single user which is used for configuring data source. Client's security and audit policies requires impersonation, so that with this configuration, watsonx.data can impersonate the end user who...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Automated resource management for CP4D via API and YAML (or equivalent) – for users, groups, projects entities

As the user numbers on the on prem CP4D and wx.ai clusters are scaling the client wants to be able to limit resources for the developers in an automated way via APIs defined by YAML or similar. Limiting resources is available as of today in a supp...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

PA user folder renamed to Unknown on user deletion

When a user is deleted from PA their personal folder is renamed to “Unknown” , this causes life of a PA admin challenges in understanding who the folder used to belong to. Can this functionality be changed to rename the folder to “{user_name + del...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Data exported should be restricted to the Form selected for both Reported Values & Journals

When exporting data via Transfer>Export Data, we can restrict accounts for the data exported for Reported Values via the selected Form. However the accounts are not restricted for any Manual Journals. In our scenario, we are exporting from a da...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add Close button in PAfE/set editor window

The set editor window in PAfE is closed by pressing the "X" on top-right corner, while in PAW there is a "Close" button on the bottom - left area of the window. To increase the processing speed and ensure coherence it would be preferred to have al...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information