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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Read Only Access to Permissions and Capabilities Tabs

Users who can't access folders or reports due to security settings don't understand what the security settings are to know what access to request. They can't see the Permissions and Capabilities tabs of the objects.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Localize attributes

With the Caption attribute it is possible to maintain translations for most objects like cubes, dimensions, elements etc. But is seems not to be possible, to localize attributenames. For example you have a dimension Product. This dimension has...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Localize attributes

With the Caption attribute it is possible to maintain translations for most objects like cubes, dimensions, elements etc. But is seems not to be possible, to localize attributenames. For example you have a dimension Product. This dimension ha...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Dashboard panels that are defined by profile in the Standard UI should translate over to the TFUI/Dashboard .

Because of this limitation, an Admin cannot create dashboards for profiles. When an organization has many users and wants consistency with some of the dashboards there is no bulk solution. End users must create their own dashboards in the TFUI o...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Functionality already exists

anti-synonyms for entities in Watson

We have synonyms in watson, and fuzzy matching - which works great! But there are cases were Watson selects completely wrong entities. I have no way of fixing this. My example case:- user text contains the string 'Whats' - watson identifies...
about 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Functionality already exists

(solved) Be able to upload images to Cloud multitenant, so I could use them in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs

(solved) In Cloud mutitenant, the images I use in Report works with HTML only. It won't work in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs. It's because the rendering occurs inside the Report Server. The images have to be located inside the Report Server...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

determine length of data stored in smartblob

Just because data is stored as a smartblob not blob, we have to go to a work around solution to get "LENGTH" of blob stored. By using length(smartblob) the amount of bytes stored in the smartblob should be returned. The LENGTH function works ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Modeler code conversion

It seems that Modeler converts characters as explained in the attached file. Therefore, Japanese has a problem with the Unicode converter. Some Japanese characters are garbled when converting from Shift-JIS to Unicode and when converting from Unic...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists