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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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Cognos Analytics (v11) - report in Excel format - Freezing panes

when using Cognos Analytics (v11) to produce a report in Excel format, it does not currently allow to set for Freezing panes, so that when you scroll the output data, the heading row(s) should remain frozen
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Python 3.9 and Runtime environments in CP4D

As we’ve mentioned in regards to CP4D upgrades there are certain features/services that gets deprecated and removed in later versions For example Python 3.9 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__d...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Full Information Maximum Likelihood method(Estimation method to assign missing values)

I would like to see "Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)" added as a missing value assignment method in SPSS Statistics. FIML is a powerful method for handling missing data in statistical modeling. By using all available information in the ...
5 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

watsonx.ai (SaaS) on IBM Cloud in other US location in addition to Dallas to be able to deploy DR scenarios

For regulation point of view, many US projects in my client require to have a DR strategy. We will deploy all watsonx services on Dallas but the idea would be to have Washington for non production environments and DR. Many watsonx components are a...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

switch in CR for turning off mounting ibm-entitlement-key

I have in logs mess because in many pods I have a message "Unable to retrieve some image pull secrets (ibm-entitlement-key); attempting to pull the image may not succeed." Pods try to mount secret that doesn't exist. I have created secret with fak...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Separate timeouts for OTP and User Sessions

In our last Pen Test, we identified a concern with the current configuration of security timeouts. Specifically, the system is using the same timeout value for both the user session and the login OTP validity. We believe these should be separate s...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

User exits on Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data

Currently, user exits are not supported on Data Replication for CP4D. It would be good to support this to enable customers to migrate from InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) that are currently using user exits. Thanks!
10 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted