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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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Improve Data Transfer between Different TM1 Servers

TM1 does not a user friendly and easy mechanism to transfer data between different TM1 servers. Currently there are 2 options, but none of them can be properly used: 1 - Use Replication to transfer and synchronize data from different TM1 servers: ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

One email to all Assignees and Subscribers

If a workflow stage has multiple Assignees and Subscribers, email is sent out to each user separately restricting the user not know who else received the email. Instead provide a setting where one email can be sent to everyone with all Assignees i...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

AI Assistant should be applied to user work flow, not just data

The AI assistant should be able to look at what a user is commonly doing within Cognos and suggest better ways of doing it. It should work with the user to set up these suggestions. Cognos is a complicated product, and users don't often use it the...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Business rules on notifications

Need the capability to be able to apply business rules on notifications using different time zones, days of a week and dates. Examples - User action triggered notifications should be sent between Monday to Friday 9AM-5PM EST. User action triggered...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 5 Future consideration

Support daylight savings for scheduled jobs

In current state operations team need to go admin console to adjust the jobs to reflect the daylight savings. We have an operational impact if the job missed certain deadline due to manual intervention.
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release