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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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Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

User should be created automatically from connected LDAP group and not after the first login

LDAP connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Needs more information

Category export should provide collaborators with their roles

Users should be able to export all important category information. Now collaborators of the category are not exported. I think collaborators and their roles are vital information of the category. In addition, when exporting categories the template...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Multiple Workbenches Open

It would be very helpful for developers and admins to be able to have more than one workbench open at a time, the same way you can have multiple books open. I understand you can only have one "new workbench*" open at a time, which is fine. My prop...
10 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create options to disable hierarchy feature

Right now in PA, hierarchy option is enabled by default whether you want to use it or not. We want to have a way to enable/disable it through config parameter, so that people can use it rightly. Please make this option as false by default and peop...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration