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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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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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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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Support for Complex File Formats in Manta Lineage

So the idea here is to augment the Filesystem flow model and introduce the notion of file section by adding the notion of file section but make it optional. This means that a given customer could choose to model file with sections or a file withou...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enhance DSNT375I deadlock message to include DRP global variable use

Following the introduction of the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT (CLT) special register and DEADLOCK_RESOLUTION_PRIORITY (DRP) global variable with EPIC 8876, the DSNT376I timeout message has been enhanced to show the timeout values used for both requester ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Utilize SSL certificates in Platform Connections

External content stores are registered as Connections in CPD platform with the credentials and SSL certificates. However, the certificates are not automatically imported/copied when configuring an instance of Cognos. It requires an additional step...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted