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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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Applications using book tabs as resources (not the whole book)

When you create a new section on a given application, the only option you have is to include a full book as a resource. If possible, for user experience reasons, it would be nice if we could apply Book Tabs as application resources. Let's say we h...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Custom Tooltips in Dashboards & Reports

Custom Tooltips is an extremely helpful thing for anyone Cognos users. Please add this feature in all possible scenarios mainly Dashboards and Reports.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to Specify Target Fields for Natural Language Query (NLQ) in Watson Discovery

Currently, when using NLQ (Natural Language Query), all fields in a document are included as the search target. However, there are cases where certain fields should not be subject to natural language queries (e.g., fields like URIs that indicate t...
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted