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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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Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

When Base and LOB are being reorged in parallel, STACK should be NO

Currently, GOC is taking the value of STACK from the TEMPLATE. If it is YES, the REORG abends. This needs to be changed to NO when BASE and LOB are being reorged in parallel
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

In OPL ODBC connection, add a setting for batch size

The prebuilt ODBCConnection allows OPL to access databases using ODBC. One way to optimize database access is to tune the execution batch size. With older versions of OPL that included DBLink, this was the dbUpdateBatchSize parameter.
almost 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

Report Studio User Interface

In Report Studio, I' would like to have more options to customize the panels displayed when showing details of the queries: 1. Allow to change width of panels ‘Data Items’ vs ‘Detail Filters' 2. Allow to change height of the 3 panels ‘Detail Fi...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Enabling SQL Pushback for Sampling Nodes in Google BigQuery

We would like to have sampling nodes (random % ) Pushback enabled when connecting to Google BigQuery. When Pushback is disabled in Google BigQuery, the database write process becomes very slow. We would like it to be enabled for frequently used pr...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

optionally disconnect filter in filter banner from widget in dashboard window

if I set a filter in the filter banner for a tab or for all tabs, this filter is valid for all widgets in the dashboard window. It would be nice if we can, like we can disconnect widgets from each other, also disconnect a widget from a filter in t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure auto retry on scheduler processes

WK import is scheduled to run daily. However, we see a failure in this process on average 1-4 times per month. Each time it fails, we receive an email notifying us of the failure and we have to go in and manually rerun the process. 95% of the time...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

File upload check file types

When a user uploads a file for a TI Process Workspace should check the file is not corrupt or uploaded with the wrong file extensions. Users often don't understand the implications of file extensions and formats, so assuming this is correct can ca...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Perform update statistics based on selected Fragments of a table

This idea is to run update statistics based on selected fragment(s) to refresh table update statistics on latest or selective fragments only. As there are considerable number of fragmented transactional tables are located under current databases t...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration