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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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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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Time to Best

I want to put your attention on the optimization concept called "time to best" (ttb), i.e. the time needed by an optimization procedure to find the best solution regardless of the total time needed by its complete execution. Anyone working in the ...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Implement piecewise linear features in Matlab API.

As for all the other APIs, it would be great to add to be able to describe PWLs with the new features introduced from 12.7.0, also in Matlab. The procedure to write several PWLs can become quite cumbersome for a large amount of constraints.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

roleValue support for multi-level sets

Many OLAP technologies offer the ability to have a member property, with the same name, spanning multiple levels. At the moment there is no good way of getting that common attribute into a report when building a mulit-level set. I may have a set e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support custom attributes with the relationship type in CP4D

Customer migrates from IBM IGC to CP4D. He uses custom attributes in the IGC with the type of relationship in the glossary. This type of attribute is essential for a successful CP4D transition.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Report Validation error on crosstab in listcontainer with busting

Report Validation error on crosstab in listcontainer with busting Case TS001478300
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Execute Tabs Independently For JavaScript

We have a Cognos report with 4 pages, set to Run with full interactivity = No and View pages as tabs = Top Left. On each page/tab, we have an HTML Item that includes JavaScript code for formatting specific to that page. Our expectation was that on...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export a trained model and its environment for deployment to existing offerings & devops pipelines

Once a model is trained and ready to be deployed, there should be an integrated way to publish the model and its dependencies to existing on-prem or cloud DevOps pipelines
about 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Add additional analysis to Recovery Plan creation to reduce overall Recovery Plan

We are currently testing DB2 Recovery Expert and our analysis is showing that we can have a very large Recovery Plan that includes objects that may not need reeovery. This might be due to the fact that Recovery Expert is analyzing the DB2 Catalog ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration