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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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Change REST API Error Messages So That They Reflect Security Access

When a user does not have access to an object the REST API returns an error that the object does not exist. This is confusing and makes troubleshooting difficult. The API should return an Access Denied error if there is no security access.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add permissions to allow a User to upgrade Discovery environment size

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Discovery ins...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC needs to alert on Delete/Define operation on source VSAM file

when a delete/define operation occurs on a source vsam file which is enabled for replication (LOGREPLICATE), it puts the source and target data out of sync and hence may cause replication to break. A warning message (CEC*W) may be helpful for oper...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Db2 disconnected System Assessment

At the moment Db2 AI for z/OS needs to be connected to do System Assessment.We've got a couple of Db2 production systems of different customers and our idea is to install Db2 AI for z/OS on one seperated lpar. The main purpose of this installation...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Watson discards changes in Dialogue nodes done during the training - Possibility of team coworking on the same skill in one moment would make development faster and smoother

1. If one person in the team is training the assistant (adding user examples to Intents, adding Entities, or making other changes) and the assistant is processing them ("Watson is training" stripe in the "Try it" window), then no other team member...
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Color-coding report tabs

Report pages can be rendered as tabs in Reporting. However, it is not easy to differentiate one page from another. It would be easier if the tabs could be formatted with different colors
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Allow selective email overrides for the Notification Default Sender

Users who initiate a burst report, have the default email address taken from Cognos Configuration under "Notifications". Several users would like to be able to override the default email address with their company email address. Currently this ove...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

EF Core driver needs to support value convertors

Your DB2 Entity Framework Core driver does not support value convertors. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/value-conversions Value convertors are really useful with databases to do things like: Translate Y/N fields to proper boolea...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration