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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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Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Leverage capabilities of Machine Learning to CDC to enhance the product and make it smart

There are different features in CDC that are usually configured manually based on customer's environment. For example: Refresh (Standard, Differential, External etc), Fast Apply. There are also other environment related configurations like size of...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Support both JSON, YAML payloads in addition to the current XML payload when using the REST API

We currently have a projects where users will be submitting and controlling workload through Application Center. The customer is asking that they be allowed to continue to use JSON payload instead of XML payload for job submission and control.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Update the Zendesk connection

The connection to Zendesk through web chat today is mostly compatible only to the older Chat feature of Zendesk. Zendesk now has this Agent Workspace which combines the chat feature with the ticket system. The older chat feature will also not be u...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Adding Governance Rules to Business Terms

Currently the way to assign a governance rule to a business term is to go into the Governance Rule view, go to Related artifacts, go to Business Terms and select the appropriate Business Term. In IGC, one could assign the governance rule from the ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration