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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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Alt-tab to move between cube viewer/ set window and Excel sheet

Currently, users have to minimise cube view and set windows to return to Excel - this should be possible via alt-tab, or just clicking through directly to the workbook
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Manipulating a custom node from a stream script

want to manipulate a custom node from a stream script. Currently, it is possible to create a custom node from a stream script using "createAt", but it is not possible to set the value using "setPropertyValue". Since custom nodes cannot be manipula...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Driver and stub object of spss.pyspark.runtime to be eased developing Python extension.

It is difficult to develop on extension nodes or custom node dialog builder. want a driver object for development. I'd like to write a code with the other IDE such as VSCode or Pycharm outside of Modeler. So I request the driver and stub object of...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of security administration of capability Upload Files

In CA11, we can only administrate which group, role and user are granted or denied to use Capability Upload Files (Via Administration Console > Security > Capabilities > Upload Files). More permission details to secure per group, role and...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

PAW - Recent workbooks in main drop down list menu

The home screen of PAW allows users to select a recent workbook that they had open. It would be fantastic to have this same option in the main drop down list menu in the top left, to avoid having to first navigate to the home screen before being a...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for Workflow Action Comment

Currently, change history does not include previous comments made in the "Action Comment" field (workflow comment popup). The popup cannot be used to serve as rejection or approval if the comment (which might provide conditional approval) is not t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

How can we use Workload Identity Federation(WIF) to access GCP from IBM CDC?

As present we are using Service Account json key to access the GCP from IBM CDC and that json key used to expire every 90 days which has to manually configure everytime in CDC side. Due to this there is going be huge impact to the Production repli...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Planned for future release

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted