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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.

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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Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Symphony HostFactory launch instance based on time

We request HF launce instances including spot instance based on time and terminated based on with optional time and workload
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Future consideration

Allow calling Watson AI APIs in-process rather than as a remote API call

A frequent ask is to allow calling the Watson AI APIs in the same process. For example, if you have a spark or pandas dataframe containing a news story per row, if would be great if each row could be mapped to a local Watson AI function call rathe...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Support Symphony HostFactory CLI

Symphony HostFactory CLI support, like: 1. Get current requestor, provider list, and detail json file for each requestor, provider. 2. symA and all requestors running state 3. Apply new json file to requestor and provider. 4. Change HostFactory de...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

HostFactory GUI improvement

HostFactory/Cloud GUI improvementConfiguration:1. Add configuration change for requestors with application list check button 2. Change provider configuration json file to the form with pull down values and explanation for each parameters3. Add act...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

PAX and Cognos Office Connection Compatibility

Planning Analytics PAX V63 and FWD is not compatible with Cognos Office Connection. Both of these are used in our company. Limiting the compatibility of PAX is not good. We would like to get latest updates of PAX.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Balanced Optimization support/ELT/Push-down support for snowflake

Push-down optimization through InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization features should be extended to include cloud native database like Snowflake.
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Calibri Font

Provide the Calibri font as a core front option. Better UI Experience
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Print button for HTML & PDF output in Report when it runs

Hi IBM Support: We would like to use functionality to print a report from the viewer We wanted to put the HTML,EXCEL & PDF images in report studio so that when we select these in report outputs it should print in respected formats. when we sel...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration