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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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Statistical Distribution Bins

There is no good functions for statistics: splitting a distribution into bins.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prevent work in progress being discarded by workspace refresh when PA Workspace requires re-authentication of the user

example for IBM PA on Cloud via IBM SaaS: PA Workspace user authentication expires after some time. It is not transparent for the user when that happens. As a result, the user cannot save work in progress, e.g. workspace explorations that are bein...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow creation "user named" hdfs files in Analytic Server

Although you can create Analytic Server Output that will write data in hdfs, it is generally creates a folder with the AS output name and a set of partition files inside it. On rerun, even if "overwrite" option is chosen on the AS Export node, new...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove or Strip HTML tags during ingestion

Affects both ingestion and document conversion / segmentation. Benefits usage of the ingested content making it consumable in a more basic format. Original customer use case was to not only remove / strip HTML but also segment based on HTML head...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Functionality already exists

Show notes for Inspector obsolete records

Entity records tab does not display notes icon for obsolete records that have a note. See PMR 30848,756,000
about 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

bkill instrumentation/logging to find source

Currently the bkill command only tracks (lsb.events) who ran it, and what signal was sent. If we have a heavily active user with a broken script, it is very challenging to find the source of the bkill command. It would be valuable to log the sourc...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

General Filters need more functionality

The general filters that go at the TOP of the DashBoard need more functionality. They only allow clicking on the options, but there should be options that should be exclusive and unique, por example a Y/N, the filtre should be letting you optional...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

enable Git Source Control for PA on Cloud via IBM SaaS

Git Source Control is at this time only supported for PA local https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD29G_2.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_nfg.2.0.0.doc/pa_nf_model_deployment.html PA on Cloud via IBM SaaS would also benefit greatly from th...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

IGI Service Center - Request approvation in external panel

Hi, is it possible to have request details and accept/refuse it in the IGI Service Center approval panel, without the mandatory step of access in every single request in order to check the details? It would improve the user experience.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Merging of tables for physical partitioned databases to a single Kafka topic

We have data in IMS which is divided in multiple partitions and sored in different physical databases. So multiple tables are created like <table_1>,<table_2>,..........,<table_20> for the same dataset using CDA mapping tool. We ...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration