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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Action button properties in PAX

It will be much easier if the Action button properties in PAX report is resizable, especially when finding the TI process with long name. See attached screenshot.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

allow onedrive on rdp server

Onedrive should not be blocked on the rdp server. I need to map a drive to the server for data uploads.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Digitally signing email

Provide the capability to digitally sign email sent from the IBM Cognos Analytics environment. Digitally signed email assures the recipient of the email's origin and legitimacy. this is especially important when sending email that contains attachm...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Verbose output of all WKS model features

Please enable the access to all the features that will be annotated by a WKS model - similar to the "verbose" functionality in the deprecated Alchemy API. We need to have access to the confidence score of annotated Entities, to annotated roles and...
almost 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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