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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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Search for Skills in an instance or between instances

It would be very helpful to be able to search for a particular skill ID (or skill name) within (or better yet, between) instances. This feature would allow a user to search for a Skill ID and find where it's located in a instance (or where it appe...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Excel 2016 in cognos cloud link instead of excel 2013

Upgrade from Excel 2013 to 2016 (when using cognos controller link)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add Exasol to the supported Databases

Currently IBM Modeler does not support Exasol as Database. But we are able to connect the Database with an native ODBC-driver. Given the case we are forced to use Exasol instead of Oracle-DB, we will loose a lot of Performance. Exasol tried to fix...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support multi-sort and multi-filters within Queries

The old UI supported multi-sort within query results but that is no longer supported in the new UI. Additionally, being able to further customize filters with multiple values or a "does not contain" option would be beneficial.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Add columns to the Rule Analysis table

The Rule Analysis table should include all of the columns supported within the Rules table, including Rule Conditions, Rule Conclusions, Priority, Ruleset, Ruleset Priority, etc.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Allow outputs to be used in profile computation and evaluation conditions

Output values which are stored within Safer Payments should be able to be referenced counters.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Internal notification process for changes to the API Instance

When many users are logged into the system and a change the active API instance is required (for example, switching the API from instance 1 to instance 2), administrators should have an option to deliver a notification to any active users advising...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 2 Future consideration

PAW - Ability to edit existing calculations

In PAW cubeviews, there’s no way to check the detail of a calculation created by a user nor to modify it once created. It’s confusing for a user to save a calculation in a view, open it 2 weeks later and not being able to check the detail We need ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration