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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Prompt user for Dynamic Report name rather than using a random number

When adding a dynamic report, what appears to be added as a reference is a random number. In a book with multiple reports and multiple reports on the same sheet, these numbers give no clue as to which report is being referenced. In Perspectives, i...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Upgrades - Detecting Customized Configurations No longer required

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) is a solutions provider with a complex architecture and implementation of Cognos Analytics. One our main struggles is upgrading from one version to the next. UKG has implemented product customizations, advance settings ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Allow Chore to be scheduled Once

In the scheduling options of a chore I'd like to be able to schedule a chore to run one time only. At present, I can only set it to run on a repeat of 0-999 days so you can mimic the behaviour as long as you remember to switch off the schedule wit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

How to customize summary information in dashboard

I have created a country wise crosstab dashboard with 2 measure values where one measure value is picking up the maximum value on database for considering at month level (for eg: if there are 100 rows of data for a column in particular month is av...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Certification of BS10008 on IBM products

We are working for a bank project. In order to onboard a new business we were asked to verify whether the softwares we are using are BS10008 certified or not. We are using below softwares in current project: Filenet Content Manager:5.5.4 ICN: 3.0....
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

profile label "Values" not Sideways but upside down in multibyte lang.

Not for functionality but just for appearance about internationalization. Graph label "Values" in the profile shows upside down in multibyte lang. Steps: In analytics project, open a data asset (ex. Accout.csv) Click "Profile" tab. If not yet run,...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

PAW Workbench not able to see subfolders in Model_Upload Folder

Whenever we are accessing files from "File upload" option from Workbench then within screen we are not able view sub-folder files or sub-folder within Model_Upload folder
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration