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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.

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Dashboard Filterbar Enhancement

When I embed a dashboard onto an intranet site using an iframe there appears to be no way to have the filterbar collapsed by default. I can hide the navbar and appbar but not set the filterbar to be hidden or at least collapsed by default. Adding ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow hierarchical view to select objects

Some objects can be naturally represented in a hierarchical view (for ex. Structures, Business Entities, etc.). In OpenPages today it is possible to create new elements in the tree, associate elements to objects, etc., by selecting them from a lis...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Enable override of -u flag to docker in LSF

The docker LSF integration would be more useful if the user inside the container was not forced to be LSB_SUB_USER. It's not clear where this -u flag is being added to the docker command by LSF. The construction of this flag does not appear to be ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Text cell format in PA Workspace

To optimize the use of automated reports, we need to have the possibility to add comments (text format) using colors or bold fonts for example. Today, we only have the possibility to add black and white comments, with simple fonts. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Creating a specific/Dedicated WML Runtime Node

Currently, WML does not allow scheduled runtime pod (enable pod affinity) on a dedicated node, Due to this we are increasing the Node Size where WML is running, based on the Load we need to scale accordingly. So we request to have a Dedicated Node...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Support of PARQUET file format with SPSS Modeler/ SPSS Analytic Server

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format. One of our SPSS Modeler customer who is evaluating SPSS Analytic Server at the moment would like to access to Parquet file format using SPSS products.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Counter examples Managed in the UI

As a developer I would like to manage counter examples in the UI in order to be able to remove them after they were place there via "Mark as Irrelevant" feature.
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration