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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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Allow functionality to save report selections in explorer GUI

Currently there is no option to save selections( time, dimensions, mesures, filters) made by a user on a given Explorer report.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Auto sentence/word completion

How better we design the bot, its always difficult to guess how the end user is going to receive it. I might train on different utterances, but user might be talking in different tone. Auto completion/ suggestion based on the trained utterances , ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need access to sub-folders while uploading/selecting files in PAW

While working in PAW I know that we can drag and drop files from local to the shared folder wherein in the back-end a folder gets updated named ' Model_Upload'. Now, I have file consists of multiple division named (HR , Finance & R&D). In ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2z Sequencing support in IDAA for surrogate keys

In many data transformation flows, surrogate keys are required for dimension tables for example. One common technique for generating surrogate values is to use database sequences, particularly when utilizing SQL-based transformations. Currently se...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

In a HDR cluster, be able to shut down the primary without triggering the auto-failover regardless DRAUTO setting and CM

In a HDR cluster, one should be able to shut down the primary instance without triggering the auto-failover regardless the setting of DRAUTO and the existence of connection managers. In DHL environment, there are scenarios that the primary instanc...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Bulk Update for a questionnaire should respect question dependencies

When you have a questionnaire with some questions appear or not depending on the answer of a previous question, Bulk Update functionality does not respect it. Dependent questions either do not become available, cannot be selected or answered prope...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Hide Right hand side Y axis in combination chart in dashboard

Hide Right hand side Y axis in combination chart in dashboard, as of now you either show both left hand side and right hand side, or none.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration