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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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PAW: More flexibility in assigning colors

Currently the sequence of colors in the palette determines the selected color per chart element. It would be great, if a user could flexibly assign colors from the palette to individual elements. The default could be the sequence of the palette an...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

PAW: Assign colors to elements

It would be great to have the option to centrally assign a color to an element in a dimension. i.e. Actuals are always black, budget always blue, forecast always green. These colors could then show up by default in any charts and maybe also as fon...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

DDL creation support thru implicit trusted connection

Trusted context is a very good security mecanism to promote a user from an application server to a specific role. We face 2 problems:- DDL issued from Siebel application server, when applying a change, fails for CREATE TABLE- If user has no direct...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Create entities based on coreference of previously detected entities

In order to detect a navigation path in a HR application I would like to be able to replace on the fly the pronouns with previously used nouns in order to better detect the current navigation path. Example: Are there any Iphones available as compa...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Be able to adjust/customize the output of the NLP before the Node processing phase

Depending on the output of the NLP, some entities could have specific enrichments that are needed to decide the next node processing output. The enrichments could be wether obtained from an external service, or simply by using a map of enrichments...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks inside Cognos Analytics

Have the option to create macro Enabled Excel Workbooks. Along with this would be the ability to create macros while you are inside the Cognos Report Editor. So when the report is run the macro Enable Workbook is created with the macros that one d...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate charge metrics in one location; Potentially spend of CPDaaS credits or tokens/units as well.

I want to be able to track my service technical usage or chargeable units across all services at an account level in the CPDAAS UI. Watson Studio does it in a project, DataStage has it's own way. WKC doesn't yet. As an administrator or owner, it w...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Functionality already exists

Insert to Code - Cloud API key

I am running through a lab where we are binding a project to a WML service or authorizing the project to WML Service. In the lab, we use an IBM Cloud API key in conjunction with the Import project token in the Notebook. Either the lab should be re...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 3 Planned for future release