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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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carousel option for options

Useful for when options are >5 Anyone could benefit from thisCarousels/galleries are very common in chatbots
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Support for TLS 1.3 in Cognos Analytics 11.0

To allow the product to support current security standards, TLS 1.3 should be added to the security options for Cognos Analytics 11.0.x
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB through ODBC

The official supported ODBC drivers from DataDirect do not support PostgreSQL versions above 9.2 and EnterpriseDB (the commercial implementation of PostgreSQL) is not supported at all. PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB are more and more used, it is ridi...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Refining Error Messages for Better Service Association in Watsonx.ai

When associating services to a project, users are often confused because services like Watson Studio, which cannot be associated, are also displayed. Moreover, when trying to associate such non-associable services, an error message is displayed sa...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Run more than one consolidations simoultenously

In Cognos Controller we we are able to run only one consolidation at a time. It does not allow other consolidation to run once the first one is finished. Can we enable option or anything change in system that can allow to run more than one consoli...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Pushdown button - Updating all flows

Users manually pushing down journal by adding BC flow in journal and repo forms Option should be enabled to users for Pushdown where cognos auto updates BC flow to Journal and forms when user decides to pushdown the journal.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Can we have option where we can overwrite numbers for all accounts?

When we try to do over write numbers, we can do only for accounts what we are loading numbers. Can we have option where we can overwrite numbers for all accounts?
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Functionality already exists

Auto populate tax and other statistical accounts calculation for Journals

For journal impacting PL, Tax lines are manually calculated and updated to journal including statistical accounts. System should auto add tax lines based on Tax rates per country by adding option in journal like "Calculate tax".
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release