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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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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...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Obsolete Functionality Enabled

Obsolete Functionality Enabled :The application includes some outdated or unused functions that are not necessary for the product's intended users. Remove any unneeded functionality in order to reduce the attack surface. This was discovered during...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Insecure Log Management [OWASP Top Ten 2013 - A5]:

The application logs sensitive information to the user's local disk with no protections for the files or masking for sensitive data inside them. It logs regardless of need and does not seem to have any automated purge process to destroy old data. ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request designed as POST is accepted as GET:

The application will accept and process a request sent as a GET, even though it is designed to be used as a POST. A GET request exposes any included parameters in browser history, printed pages, and server logs. A POST prevents those exposures. En...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dymanic cross-tabulation with process execution

I would like to know how to display data in Cognos from a pivot table with process execution existing in IBM planning. In IBM planning there is a function to add an action button and you can add a process (as in the screenshot) and you can also sy...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow dimension attribute to appear as a hover-over message or popup text for an element

Allow selecting dimension's (especially measure dimension) text attribute or an alias to appear as a hover-over message or a pop-up text if populated. The element which has a popup text can have a bulb-like icon next to it, to indicate that elemen...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

COPY UTILITY enhancement

Actually:Incremental image copies are not allowed when:- No full image copies exist for the table space or data set that is being copied-After a successful LOAD or REORG operation, unless an inline copy was made during the LOAD or REORG job.Add a ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

same SQL functionality fo...

The customers of IBMs DB2 products (LUW and z/OS) expect that the existing differnences between the SQL functionalities are getting less from DB2 version to DB2 version. This - 85095,077,724 - is an example for a new functionality in DB2 LUW with ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Action button to rebuild entire workbook

Action button to rebuild entire workbook
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration