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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

DB2-LUW: Enable STMM on the HADR Standby

The standby inherits the db parms upon restore. If enabling ROS and running various reports (and other "stuff") on the standby - the memory parms (bufferpools, various heaps, etc) may not be optimal for that workload, but STMM is not altering the ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide for language-specific models across geos (specifically granite-8b-japanese to non-Tokyo regions)

While it is critical to offer language-specific text generation models close to the regions we anticipate will use these the most, for global companies it is important to offer text generation capabilities across languages to multiple geos. For ex...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Expand energy stats to cover non-exclusive jobs

As part of working towards our net zero we would like to request more general energy measurement for non-exclusive jobs. We believe this would benefit all LSF users, particularly those working in the UK research environment where there is an incre...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable advanced drill behavior in interactive mode

Advanced drill behavior give report developers a fine grain of control when building reports. Interactive mode no longer supports it, which causes a number of issues. An option should also be added to allow single-click drilling, as my users are c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration