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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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Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Adding another permission in Catalog of reading and viewing assets only permission and allow users to request to access the assets inside a catalog

For now in catalog collaborator roles and permissions, the most limited role in a catalog, viewer, allows users to view the catalog and use assets in projects. However, there is customer's scenario that they only want some users the permissions to...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Reallocate licenses from idle jobs

Customer is facing a problem where a license is checked out by some user for their interactive job (and assigned to high priority license project), but the job session is idle (potentially, user went to lunch or left for the day). As a result, oth...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to pass query params in SAP Odata Stage

Currently Odata stage is able to connect to a SAP system and select a service or table but there is no way we are able to pass any parameters to extract only a limited set of data
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to delete / edit comments / Annotations in PASS

The ability to add comments / annotations to a Planning Analytics Cube cell is very useful. But sadly in PASS there is no ability to delete or edit these comments which limits how useful they are. Frustratingly both PAW and PAFE at least give user...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Distributing  various files like spark events, spark job logs,  across pvcs.

Customer is expecting a performance bottle neck if we don't distribute the files that are going into file-api-pv. For example when we look at a spark executor yaml, we see atleast 5 or more mount paths to file-api-pv. Customer some times is runnin...
2 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Exploring Generative AI in everything we do

Watson AI-Driven Customer Service: Implement Watson AI-powered chatbots or virtual assistants to enhance customer service. These tools can provide instant responses, streamline customer interactions, and improve overall satisfaction. Predictive An...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Ability to control cplex memory consumption

Nowadays optimization runs are more and more conducted in the cloud, in kubernetes environments. In kubernetes, the processes run inside containers in what are called pods. To prevent a pod to be killed when the node (machine) capacity is exceeded...