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


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Provide ability to dump sequence of jobs ids considered by LSF scheduler for dispatch during a dispatch cycle

An old job which is pending in LSF may continue to remain pending with the reason "Individual host based reasons" while newer jobs continue to get scheduled. This may happen due to queue priority and fairshare settings. When running 'badmin diagno...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Federation support for Transient Schema

Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading prompts that contain only a singluar element should also receive a box frame like the ones with mutliple elements

Currently Cascading Prompts that contain only one selectable Value will not show a Box Frame similar in Outline to those that have multiple Elements for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Render Text from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards

Ability to render free form (unstructured) text such as user comments from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards. Currently, text sourced from IBM Planning Analytics does not render in Cognos Analytics reports and dashboards. Ide...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete scripts, Shiny apps from Projects

In a Watson Studio Project it is possible to delete many types of assets: data assets, notebooks, refinery flows, ... To delete an asset from a project, we can choose the Delete or the Remove option from the action menu next to the asset on the pr...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload

We need a tool for the bulk upload of data into OpenPages. It must be an automated process able to import files with up to several millions of records. It can be started by the user , but it must also be schedulable. It must manage several data fo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Functionality already exists