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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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LSF should always reject submitting jobs which request slots over slot limit.

A job with over limit slot request still can be submitted when the slot limit is configured with USERS. For example: With SUERS configured, job can be submitted and stays pending: Begin Limit NAME = TestQueueSiJobLimit QUEUES = priority SLOTS = 3 ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Separate company lock records from company structures for structures export / import

currently, company lock records are imported/exported together with company structures. This causes the import process for company structures to extend by many hours. it makes it hard to transfer company structures to other databases for testing. ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Request for addition of Group Processing Functionality in Virtual MDM at 11.6.0.11

We had discussed in past on the availability of group processing functionality and IBM MDM Advocate: Effy Wu confirmed that this functionality no longer exist in MDM version11.6.0.11. We would like to get IBM's recommendations on the alternative ...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Planned for future release

Please unify the TLS version when creating a JDBC connection to the DB.

The version of TLS allowed when creating a connection in the control plane of CPD and when creating a connection in Flow Designer is different. * Customers who have problems this time are using postgreSQL. Connection in CPD control plane: TLS ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

IDAA Sailfish v7 - Table prioritization during load

On IDAA v5, Banco do Brasil groups and prioritizes the tables that will be loaded into IDAA.On IDAA v7 - a set of tables are loaded using Smart Load feature. Banco do Brasil needs table prioritization during the smart load process.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration