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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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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.

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Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Recovery option in PAW to recover a deleted folder

Recently I accidently deleted folder (and of course everythinf in it) from PAW. I opened a case in IBM Cloud Support to ask them to recover it but even they said that it's impossible to recover the missing folder. So it's gone. So I'm asking some ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Operator action from CPCS Entries is not getting logged in SystemLogs Screen

When an operator manually updates a flag in CPCS Entries Screen, the detail is getting logged in Audit database table and not displayed in UI SystemLogs screen. It would be beneficial as MIS supporting the application to see everything on the UI S...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Functionality for retrieving inactive users added for API

Current minimal attribute API doesn't retrieve disabled users, only active ones. We propose to also have an opportunity to retrieve the inactive users. This would enable us to make the user management automatic as currently there is no way to disa...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Not under consideration

Tooltip is not easily seen when data values in chart have large differenecs

When hovering over charts that have small vales the tooltip does not display.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Need to configure the Queue Name in AS

Need to be able to specify in the configuration the queue name Analytic Server 3.1 could use.By default Analytic Server 3.1 is using the DEFAULT Queue. Really need a way to configure other names
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Stop training an annotator once the process has started

It's somewhat easy to accidentally train an annotator and it wastes 10-15 minutes if this happens. A "stop training" button would be helpful. Alternatively, a "Are you sure you want to train your annotator?" prompt. I've done this several times, b...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should produce more accurate filter factors (to better optimize queries)

Today, when I have a query with an equals predicate and also an "IN LIST" predicate and both apply to the same table and when I have correctly collected multi-column frequency distribution stats for the two columns involved with these two predicat...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration