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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.

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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Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to use subset name as a total in formula-based reports/User defined consolidations

customers would use saved subset names in DBR/DBRW to avoid creating multiple alternate rollups. this way they could create summaries without admin intervention.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable multiple TM1 DB servers connections on the same report in PAX

As of version 2.0.41, PAX does not manage connection to multiple servers on the same report. In TM1 Perspectives, we have reports that connect to multiple TM1 Data server : we need to have the same behaviour under PAX. For example, we would have o...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Need to add Supplemental Groups to v4 Operators.

When setting up FTMv4, we have the need to add supplemental groups to the operator so that the deployment brings up the pod with the appropriate GID to allow access to an external NFS NAS drive that's been mounted on the pod. Currently, when the p...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Restore the PAW book/asset/tab name on content switcher navigation drop down that was removed in PAW SC90 update

Previously (until PAW SC90 was released Sep 19, 2023) users were able to navigate easily between books/tabs/assets within an Application or Plan via the Content Switcher Navigation Drop down. This was removed in this release making it more cumbers...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced flexibility for SYSMON_GROUP

Some privileges like SYSMON (or SYSADM, SYSCTRL and SYSMAINT) are only available in DBM CFG for OS group members. We can imagine the following scenerio to enhance flexibilty for those priviliges:Allow adding additional OS groupse.g. db2 update dbm...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Option to sort 'my parameters'

Add custom sort option for global parameters under the 'My parameters' section in the application bar. We want to expose specific parameters to users using this functionality but it is not possible to control the order of this parameters (how they...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can't see the QUEUE numbers.

Display the QUEUE number on the screen before the report is executed. This allows users to see QUEUE and know the crowded conditions.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maintain portal characteristics for embedded report when drilling through

When you embed a report in a third party portal it is expected the experience will remain the same. Drilling through should not expose the appbar and navbar nor should it show any other Cognos portal objects.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration