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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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Configure offset of date picker via UseExcelSerialDate

It is great that you implemented the date picker for workspace, but... When UseExcelSerialDate=F the offset for the date picker is Jan 1st 1900, whereas for date commands like DATE ist is Jan 1st 1960. This should be aligned to be consistent!
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Extension Output Node for Native Python with Graph Output tab like R and Python for Spark

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Native Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the str...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Masked Data Customization

Allow more customization around which users can view the values of each encrypted attribute. This is currently handled at the user account level and a user may either view all encrypted/masked values or none of them. We need additional flexibility...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Generate UETRs for MX during MSIF sending, not in the MER Data Entry (DNIMX&DNIFINPLUS)

1. For T2 MSGs that we enter in DNIMX domain the field for UETR is not mandatory so we can leave it empty but when we send the MSG from MER to InterAct and to SWIFTNet the UETR is not calculated and field PmtId – UETR is empty even if we put CD co...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 5 Future consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

OpenPages Workflows Should Not Notify Inactive/Disabled Users

Emails being sent to disabled users is a significant security concern for the OP system. Anyone labeled as disabled or inactive should not be sent emails if a group they belong to was selected for notification in a workflow.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Have watsonx have support for translation

Have specialized models around language translation for a variety of languages.
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Upload multiple files in PAW dashboard

In PAW it is now possible to enable 'Allow file upload' when a process is run from an action button. This is fantastic as it allows an end-user to upload the latest version of the source file at run time. This functionality could be made even bett...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration