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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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Associate or a Copy an object using Workflow or Calculations Engine.

I have a scenario. In OP there is a Data type of Business Entity selector. Let's Suppose A process is a child of BusEnt. There is a process that is associated with a primary BusEnt. Now If the User wants to add a secondary BusEnt using the Busines...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Add possibility to create dashboards over several databases

I would really to be able to create a dashboard, containing the activity response time of my top-10 databases. Or to be able to look at the graphs of some databases in 1 glance.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

The Spark job should use the mount_path attribute of the storage volume by default

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow columns to be deleted when creating Virtual Tables

During the creation of Virtual Tables, there will be scenarios where some columns should be excluded. Allowing this choice during creation would be much better than editing the VT afterwords. This is especially important when certain columns are c...
almost 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Detect like-named objects and convert to non-part objects on current SSID

Object Profile contained some like-named objects that were added to the profile when they were Partitioned and now they are no longer Partitioned. This would require us to update the Object Profile for those objects and resubmit the job.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Salesforce connector: support Loyalty Cloud module

A few months ago the need to access the Salesforce platform via SPSS emerged, in particular the Loyalty Cloud module, which was recently released on the market. Loyalty Cloud objects are available starting from version 51 of the APIs but, actually...
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration