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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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No way to delete all saved reports at once

There is no way to remove report versions other than deleting them on every report.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

bsub should accept a cpu_efficiency parameter to allow cpu over-commiting in the pool

It's rare for a job to achieve close to 100% cpu efficiency. Often, jobs have a peak cpu requirement during its execution lifetime but use less cpus in average. If bsub could be told that a job is expected to run with a given cpu efficiency, LSF c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Clicks in viz should filter global filter in dashboards

When we click on a viz inside a dashboard it, by default, filters the other widget in the dashboard. It does not filter the data added in the filter pane which is also part of the dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict view access on Data Catalog (Overview)

If a Rule restricts/blocks a certain table or asset from an account, the account should not be able to see the table appear at all in the catalog. E.g. There is a Rule that denies access to data for assets with 'Data Vault' assigned to it and this...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Access to Content Store Data

Ultimate Software takes user requests for future development actions. The largest request we have by far is the ability for a BI administrator to be able to report on how their content is secured at this time. Currently, for auditing purposes, cus...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtering view based on element attributes

Users often have to slice and dice data in views and visualizations for analysis and data input. Today you either have to open the set editor to filter elements, use a selector widget or place the dimension on the canvas for easy selection of spec...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bar Vizualization with data table (like in Excel)

If you insert a chart in Microsoft Excel you have the option to generate a crosstab below the chart with all the data used.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a visual indicator to the interface to show which objects have a schedule

Please add a visual indicator to show users which objects in a list have a schedule. This is something that has always been difficult for our users in previous versions and remains difficult in Cognos Analytics. The only way to see if an object ha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration