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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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Load Metadata – change the default behaviour to “not selected checkbox” for the new tables

All new Tables receive by default a selected checkbox and therefore are being loaded by the next Load Metadata process, if they remain selected. If a lot of new not relevant Tables are coming, it means, that all of them should be excluded manually...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Open multiple Application objects at once in PAx

With the change made to where Applications sit within PAx, there are now more clicks to open application objects. In Perspectives you would just use the application tree to navigate to the location of your objects and double click to open. If you ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add auto calc toggle in PAx cube viewer

Add an autocalc toggle to the cube viewer like the one that exists in the Perspectives cube viewer and Explorations.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

C++ 20 and Compiler Support for Symphony SDK

to align with our internal C++ version and compiler in use for quant library and risk engines in the environment C++ 20 on Windows : VS2019 version 16.11.31. ( May migration to VS2022 in near future) on Linux: gcc 11.2
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Duplicate flow to put new flow in same folder as original flow

Currently when duplicating a flow in CP4D the new flow is put in the root folder and not in the same folder as the original flow. Would be better if it worked like legacy and put the new flow in same folder
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
12 months ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Support for DB2 ZOS

Certain components of CP4D such as Data Refinery and Watson Studio, since version 4.6 state they no longer support DB2 ZOS as a platform connection type. We have been informed by the help desk on multiple tickets that DB2 ZOS is no longer supporte...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration