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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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Excel data source out-of-the-box connector

We have many customers who wants Excel as data source and need out-of-the-box connector for Watson Query. Remote connection is a very tedious process and even creating it for demo purpose and showcasing it to customer is painful and it results in ...
11 months ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Automate SSL certificate refreshing after CP4D self-signed certificates are renewed (Db2, DV)

I think the SSL certificate refreshes for Db2 and Data Virtualization described below are about internal CP4D communication. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=tddw-updating-db2-ssl-certificate-after-cloud-pak-data-self-si...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

2G limitation in Db2 utility heap size allocation

If the number of buffers and buffer size are not user specified in the BACKUP DB command then Db2 limits the utility heap size allocation to 2G. Please remove this cap to allow for higher default allocation of the utility heap size which in turn s...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Essbase Connectivity

To connect Cognos 11.0.* to Essbase 11.1.2.3.*. for reporting. This will help users to have front end reporting for Essbase using Cognos
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud - Enabled parameters (by default) are made present in the tm1s.cfg file on server setup

Using the PAW Administration page for applications built on IBM Cloud the environments are not appropriately synchronizing the configuration parameters. Per IBM Support, If the parameter is not present in the tm1s.cfg, the Configuration section in...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

AD custom group traversing

When configuring custom AD groups in Db2wh, it seems like the product is not traversing the OU entirely. For example, we use a custom group for the BLUADMINGRP group which is in OU=global,ou=groups,ou=admingroup and we use a custom group for BLUUS...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Set global parameters in Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Ability to set the use/display value for a parameter once in a project and have it use across multiple reports
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

An API to download the training data applied by WDS

A way to download the training data that has been applied instead of just downloading all the training provided as input to the system ? This is because we need to provide the client with the list of all training that has actually been applied to ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Agnostic/Generic Instance Groups and Resource Scheduler

We are in need of agnostic/generic instance groups and an   agnostic/genericresource scheduler.*) agnostic/genericresource schedulerThere is a common need for our data scientists to schedule a "pure" non-Spark TensorFlow Python...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration