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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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Ability To Selectively Deploy Data Sources

We need the ability to have project admins (users, not people with SYSADM rights) export specific data sources from one environment to another, and have that respect the defined permissions. So: if a user wants to migrate a Dynamic Cube data sourc...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature that would let a Cognos admin to request a user's credentials be refreshed

One logical...even likely...scenario is that a Cognos admin views the license usage and discovers that one of the license groups has more users assigned to it than are actually owned by the customer. After researching which user has been granted t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos supporting running on GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

Client would like Cognos to support it's containers on GKE
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need API to get the delta changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc

Need API to get the delta-changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc Please refer to the SF TS015464391 for detailed information
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Scheduling via e-mail

As dashboard can be exported in PDF and can also be sent via email, it would be great for our users if Dashboard could also be schedules and users can receive it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default the report properties to the report view properties

There is no way to change the Default Portal Action globally, only at a report level but it does not propagate to the report views. A report is created with the 'Default Portal Action' changed from the default of 'View most recent report' to 'Run ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep formatting from PAW view when exporting to Excel

The request is to keep PAW view formatting also after an export to Excel is done. Exports from a PAW view to excel becomes a raw data export and very hard to navigate. Often simple formatting has been applied to the PAW view on row or column level...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration