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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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PAW - Download/Upload Colour Palette (IDs) for environment promotion

PAW Colour palettes can be manually re-created across environments but as each palette is created with a unique paletteId, the colour formatting is lost when we deploy between environments (colour palette needs to be manually re-selected after dep...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Python scripts should be minimized as short as R boilerplate statements.

can use Python 3 from extension nodes and custom node dialog builder. However, compared to R, Python has a lot of boilerplate statements. It would be nice if Python could be scripted in the same way as R, with a minimum of boilerplate statements. ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Masked Data Customization

Allow more customization around which users can view the values of each encrypted attribute. This is currently handled at the user account level and a user may either view all encrypted/masked values or none of them. We need additional flexibility...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to delete obsolete files

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to clean up unused or obsolete files.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Manta DBT Support as part of CPD IKC

State Farm is using DBT internally and we are currently working on a CPD POC with IBM DV and IKC. They are looking for a complete data fabric solution to connect to all of their data sources. There are questions on IBM's Semantic Layer solution an...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Duplicate Related Values Error Handling

When importing multi-related values into an RDS via a csv and there's a duplicate on one row the import bombs out with the error and no related values are imported after that point, even the correct ones. Instead of an error, it would be helpful i...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration