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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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Possibility to use the "Sort descending"-function from PAW-views in dynamic reports in PAX.

This would be useful for creating reports and filtering out the most important data i.e the largest values in excel. This can only be achieved today by users with good knowledge in MDX. From what I have tried it is also only possible having one di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to stop using of AOT and other db2 tables on the IDAA

When we STOP or start for UT ,spaces of tables that are loaded to IDAA or spaces that relate to AOT's, these spaces are still available for the IDAA. We can SELECT data from the IDAA for these tables and for AOT's' we can also update them. We need...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel - Edit Formula feature from Perspectives

Perspectives has this really useful feature called 'Edit Formula' which I often use to make static workbooks live again e.g. convert a static cells to DBRW. It isn't always perfect in Perspectives (sometimes referencing the wrong cells in the form...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENABLE ABILITY TO COMPILE DATASTAGE JOBS ON THE SERVER SIDE IN NON-WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

Right Now there is no ABILITY TO COMPILE DATASTAGE JOBS ON THE SERVER SIDE(NON-WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT), we would need to this functionality enabled in Datastage.Raise the CASE TS000075374 for the same.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to schedule a Workspace refresh

We need the ability to to schedule a Workspace refresh so that data is refreshed in the background and doesn't have to be manually refreshed by the user each time and have to watch it refresh on screen which can take time.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Build Discovery support for automatic correction of mis-spellings instead of requiring Query expansion to explicitely train Discovery

We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot offering with Watson Discovery search integration. Feedback from one of our Customer's indicates that they are looking for built-in Watson Discovery support for correcting mis-spellings / offer...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Submit sub-groups

In Cognos Controller it's possible to submit (close) company reporting for a specific closing version, defined in general configuration. In larger groups next step is often, closing of groups/subgroups (including other journal types than the compa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

ALL: Improve password encryption

Improve the password encryption between the agents and Access Server.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Add Git and GitHub to supported source code systems for DS IDE client

From within the Datastage development client IDE provide support for GitHub and Git into the development UI to allow use of Git as the source code control system when developing jobs, in IS v11.5
about 8 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Mark Intents with a warning if they are not referenced at the Dialog tab

As the number of Intents grow in a project, it becomes hard to track which of them doesn't have an answer at the dialog tab, it would be nice to have a warning. Annexed is how I imagined the feature.
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration