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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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Greater filtering for files

We are a SAS shop, and we are finding the connection mechanism cumbersome. We have numerous file folders where SAS scripts are stored but we would like to filter out some of the scripts or sub folders. The current connection type does not allow fo...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Add Python 3.12 and 3.13 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX for 3.11 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.12 and 3.13.

Add Apple Silicon builds of Python binary wheels for CPLEX

The Python package for cplex on the Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files) only provides macOS binaries for x86_64, not for Apple Silicon. Please upload binary wheels for Apple Silicon. In my industry (astronomy, astrophysics...

Cognos Analytics (v11) - report in Excel format - Freezing panes

when using Cognos Analytics (v11) to produce a report in Excel format, it does not currently allow to set for Freezing panes, so that when you scroll the output data, the heading row(s) should remain frozen
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Schedule for daily or hourly web scraping in Discovery SaaS

At the moment Discovery SaaS has a scheduling option for weekly web scrapes, but this option doesn't exist for daily. Implement a scheduling feature that would accommodate daily or even hourly web scrapes. At the most frequent option for scraping ...
9 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Limit Concurrent Sessions per user in Content Store

Limit the amount of cuncurrent sessions a user can log into the content store. This is a security issue if a user can do so too many times
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Allow for all Action Usage at Merge

It would be beneficial is we could update more than just inputs at the time of Merge. Having the ability to reference all possible actions would provide more flexibility and allow for quicker usage of data. There are payloads that along with updat...
9 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Include Prefetch wait time Metrics in monreport.dbsummary() stored procedure

Prefetch wait time numbers are a bit similar to FCM in the sense that they can be really high even in a normal system. Prefetch wait time doesn’t start until an agent attempts to read a page that has already been queued for prefetch – then the clo...
5 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted