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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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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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Custom Reports formatting to be retained when created from Exploration

Custom reports allow for complete formatting control by the user using standard Excel functionality., BUT there is currently no seeding of the formatting from the originating exploration view. Workaround is not satisfactory - copy/paste formatting...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information Assets Last Modified Date should be sortable for current dates

Currently in ICP4D MARIA Information Asset screen there is no way of user to filter the published Assets to show the current dates using Last Activity. User has the left panel capability to search on Modified, created by, etc. The easy way to disp...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Quick Scan completed job - Asset Screen Column name and Context should be readble

Currently in 4.0.6 Release Assets name and Context should not be readable or expandable full name and context. user should be able to read or expand the asset name and context option would be helpful. Thanks.
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Welcome Invitation Design Refinements

When sending out an invitation to new users, some users fear the welcome invitation is SPAM. Here are some reasons they suspect it is SPAM: Uses links with sendgrid.net, rather than IBM Formatting is not professional When arriving in an inbox with...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Excel to recognise the blank zero format from PA

Format c:#,##0_);(#,##0);returns error when in returned in PAX and used in Excel calculation Workaround use c:#,##0_);(#,##0);0
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt dash line

The default first two lines - header section and dash line. Remove dash line and instead replace 'All' in the second line
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration