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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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"Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs support for Python 3.10 and 3.11 Support for IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.*

It can be challenging to motivate/influence the Spark community to use the latest Python version which can delay the ability of Spectrum Conductor to use the latest Python version. "Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs compatible with Python 3.10.*...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Future consideration

Data Refinery - add annotation on a per step basis

When creating refinery flows please add the ability to document or add comments to each step in the flow.
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

PAW charts: Fixed color for elements

Currently the color of a measure in charts changes depending on the values. It would be helpful to have a fixed color for a given measure. Example: Filter: Product A Actuals (500) - green Plan (100) - red Product B Plan (500) - green Actuals ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Alma 8

Request is to certify Db2 LUW on Alma Linux 8 as the replacement for CentOS. Research indicates: RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos 7 and 8 with Alma Linux. There will not be a Centos 9. RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

SQLJ Add support for use of Java Array in IN predicate

We would like to see support of Java type ARRAY for IN-LISTs. The use case would look like: SqljCtx sqljCtx = getSqljCtx(); Array fkpzOfflKtoIdsArray = sqljCtx.getConnection().createArrayOf("TIMESTAMP", fkpzOfflKtoIds); FremdkontoOfflineIterator i...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to run a report in OpenPages e.g.(in a Risk Register) and automatically send the result output as email to the login user.

It would be great if a business user can click on a link/button in say an Risk Object and it will run a Cognos report and allow the report output to be delivered through email with the email address registered under the user that logged in. Save t...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Field value valuation

Possibility to define field value validation across 2 fields that are not enumerated strings.For example:- Currency field 1 > Currency field 2- Date field 1 <= Date field 2- Substring (Simple String field 1) = Substring (Simple String field 2)
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 3 Future consideration