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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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About available languages of when defining Entity/Relation in Knowledge Studio.

I would like to request Japanese added to characters that can be used for Entities/Relations in Knowledge Studio. (This request is strongly seek by our clients of a major cosmetics manufacturer that has expanded worldwide through our Project.) the...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure which fields are available for quick search in FLV/Grid View Search box

Currently, in a main menu FLV/Grid view Search box, you can enter a letter from the name of an enumerated field, for example, S for Status and a list of matching enumerated fields (that are in the view currently) is displayed where you can select ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

FLEXlm supports 'uncounted node locked' Feature Types Report the Checkouts for Them

By default RTM always report 0 max license and 0 in use. However, if you look at the checkouts, there are several in use. Can we get RTM to at least report the number of checked out licenses for this feature class?
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

Executes external commandline-scripts from stored procedure. The stored procedure call should work like following: select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput); With the script i check if new created tables or views from developm...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create an SMF record for the SQL statements executed via a REST call

Currently SMF records are not cut in DVM for SQL statements executed via a REST call.
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration