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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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Data Discovery: add NPS to Connection type box when creating a new connection.

Not possible to add directly a NPS connection to Data Discovery. We have a workaround provided by IBM, first we have to create a NPS connection via Import Metadata.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Certification of Information server 11.5 to release Cloudera CDH 5.8

Due to critical issues found in the current release (CDH 5.5) we require support of Information Server 11.5 to release CDH 5.8. Please provide us an estimation regarding the availability of this certification in order for us to establish an implem...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

UNIX ODBC Support tools

Information Server on UNIX ODBC Support tools (in /Server/branded_odbc/IBM_Tools/ ) have various problems :- capture_env.ksh : Doesn't work when Information Server Engine administrator is chosen as different user than from "dsadm"- odbc_version.sh...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

RTM: add a region field to grid cluster description to ease license services association

to ease grid cluster vs license services vs License Scheduler alert or graphs generation, add a 'region' field for Grid Cluster. Region field is already available for License services and License Scheduler servers.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: hosts unreachable for scheduling constraints

when an exec server is not eligible for a scheduling constrainte ("just starting a job recently" for ex), there nothing to monitor that situation. the only way is to detect that situation is to do a bjobs -lp on a pending job pending for that reas...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Archive Report - Requesti...

No description provided
about 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

User defined report to be able to extract data of cost of investments by owned companies (i.e. as counter co)

Although the investment account is tagged with Intercompany code "A", there's currently no way to create a report similar to intercompany report that enable the breakdown of cost of investment (entered via shareholding and investment register) by ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration