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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Event Manager and Entity Manager need to work in coordination to prevent update and merge timing issue.

Based on our findings and the confirmation from IBM support we have submitted this RFE to address this problem. We found an issue in MDM event notification which can impact downstream systems that rely on MDM EID. This is a timing issue and only o...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Google BigQuery for Mac

BigQuery and Mac users are increasing in entertainment industry or startup company. Supporting Google BigQuery and the SQL Push Back for Mac is needed to sell SPSS Modeler to clients.
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

GPU report works with exclusive jobs

To use the GPU accounting, our users have to submit exclusive GPU jobs. We would like our users to submit both exclusive and non-exclusive jobs. Since GPU accounting is important to us, we have to configure our queues to make all submitted GPU job...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Enhancement to dsjob command to show status on multiple instance jobs

The following command does not list multiple instance jobs:dsjob -ljobs -status 0/4 EDW If I have a running or queued multiple instance the above command will not list it as running or queued. This seems like a oversite, because the Status command...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job Step ODBC Data Source with SQL Query

In SPSS Deployment Manager, I have a Job with a Job Step, where the "Mode" of one of the ODBC Data Sources in the underlying SPSS Modeler Stream was recently changed from "Table" to "SQL Query".After refreshing the job step to use the version of t...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Is a defect

HOST Var and SQL Text RFE 105549

HOST Variable and SQL Text features cannot be used as the granularity is ON/OFF where what we need is granularity by application on a DB2 subsystem. Sensitive data is not always masked so teams cannot view the data, this includes DBAs. Since bot...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration