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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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Support for previewing images in Catalogs

As described in IBM documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=properties-previews#require-data , connected data assets must be structured data in order to be Previewed inside IKC. The only option to preview images i...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to support user-defined SSM boundaries, Client/SSM flow control and error handling mechanism for exceeding limits

IBM Spectrum Symphony product defines hard-coded boundary limits for total number of live sessions (10,000) and total number of live tasks (2500000) to allow users with a guideline to scale their environments. However, there are limitations that i...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Condtional formatting of report chart axis

In our scenario we have several hundred KPIs measured on scorecards (one report in Cognos). The KPIs can have differing unit types, such as Percent with 2 decimal places, Percent with 4 decimal places, whole numbers, CAD currency, USD currency, et...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Ability to managed Administration password by Wallets and SFTP or FTP process

Many clients are tightening security around how administration passwords and secrets are managed including storage. My client has stringent security protocols as such would like to have the ability to managed passwords via Wallet and SFTP process ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Skip Consolidated Values

When saving cube views for processes, users have the option of selecting 'Skip Consolidated Values' in the cube 'view extract' interface. When saving a cube view from PAW, this option is not available. Further, when changing a current view and sav...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH-Ability to set dynamic default prompt value

Client wishes to be able to set a dynamical default selection for his prompts. For Example a Month prompt that by default displays the current month.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

produce a report in XML and CSV format with more than one query

The Report Studio user guide states : You can produce a report in HTML PDF CSV various Excel formats and XML. You cannot produce a report in CSV or XML format if you have more than one query defined in the report unless the additional queries are ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration