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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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Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Allow end user to export data from a drill through in PAW.

We have setup drill through on our higher level reports to bring users back to the detailed cube views. This allows us to show high level summaries and give the end user the ability to go to the detailed cell data without having to navigate a cube...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

As a SPSS developer you need the option to work with "timestamps with milliseconds" since the data records are only uniquely described by the milliseconds in some sources.

When creating a "Data Asset" node, you can select the table and "preview" the content. Here you can see timestamp values with milliseconds (e.g. 1986-07-28T12:45:52.402Z). After the "Data Asset" node is created, the "Preview" shows the timestamp w...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Connectivity to Azure Resources using Service Principal approach

General Motors is investigating DataStage NextGen as part of modernization of their current DataStage jobs. As General Motors is heavily invested and focused on Azure, several application teams are leveraging Azure database solutions such as Azure...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

Enable Preview button for 'Location' sourced TI's (v12)

Currently, when a Location is used to source a TI process in PAaS (v12) the 'Preview' button is disabled. I think it would be desireable for it to show the first 10 rows of the endpoint exactly as a csv/odbc or any other source can do.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Lock direct form access for the correction of journals in Controller Web Reconciliation tab

For reconciliation errors ‘Between Accounts’ and ‘Opening Balances’, users are able to correct a journal reconciliation error by opening a form and entering an amount to correct the reconciliation error. This amount, as entered by form, appears in...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

When a session is suspended while tasks are running on reclaimed hosts, the suspendGracePeriod should take precedence over EGO consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

Define a very large reclaimGracePeriod (say 10 hours) for a consumer. If a compute host is reclaimed while the workload is running, then the tasks will remain running until the reclaimGracePeriod expires. However, if the session is then suspended,...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

asking for the feature request where the suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod in cases where tasks continue to run for suspended sessions when hosts where the tasks were running before...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release