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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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Default 'Reveal editable fields' during stage "Perform Self-Assessment"

Explore is the toggle switch "Reveal editable fields" could be automatically switched on upon a Control Owner opening a control which is in the stage "Perform Self-Assessment". This will allow for easier identification of a Control Owner how / whe...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Do not save outputs for report in jobs delivered by email

Hello, when we launch a job with several report views inside and select delivery method as "Send a link to the reports by email", we have to select also "Save the reports" otherwise there is an warning message! By doing this the output will be sav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support data entry shortcuts in PAx Reports

PAx has the ability to support Expansions via JSON expressions to define macros for data entry (ex: 5k is translated to 5,000), but these macros are only available for data entry directly in the cube viewer. Request to expand this to all valid dat...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Custom control on saved outputs and when scheduling reports with auto-generated prompts page

Custom control using JS code is working fine when we run report interactively, Same is not working when we schedule the report using batch process .Please let us know how this can be fixed in CA11, we have tested the functionality in 11.0.5 & ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration