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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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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515 VOTE

Drop Downs in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment we can drag an item to the dashboard and it creates a hierarchy that can be selected from to change data. If we can change this to a drop down, similar to what can be done on report studio prompt pages, then it...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 20 Delivered

Rendering of rich media: images & videos

Rich media formats for content presentations, viz. images, videos, interactive charts, tables [see ideas for tables and charts] Making insights easier to understand and act upon. Instead of lengthy reports, users will receive clear summaries b...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Delivered

GPU support for embedding models in watsonx.ai SW

Currently, embedding models are deployed using CPU resources, which leads to slower processing times and increased latency when handling large-scale data. This RFE proposes the implementation of GPU support for embedding model deployments. The enh...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered

Agent Access Control: JIT(Just-in-time) JEA( Just-enough-access)

In regulated domains like Talent (HR systems) or Finance (ERP, banking platforms), granting AI agents standing access to sensitive data and systems poses significant security and compliance risks. Just‑In‑Time (JIT) and Just‑Enough‑Access (JEA) ar...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Ability to control/renew V12 API Key expiry date

Currently in PA aaS the API Keys have an expiry date of 365 days. This is not displayed anywhere and learned it the hard way. Talking with the support, it seems an Expiry Date column will be added to the interface. Now the enhancement request is t...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered
142 VOTE

Multi Select Option for PAW

The current dimension element selector only allow users to select a single element from a dimension but no option to select multiple elements and see aggregated data on the fly. The MDX based calculation(Summerized) option is not as intuitive as a...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Delivered
144 VOTE

More than one Data Module to be included in one report

Can't use more than one Data Module in a report
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered