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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

C++ 20 and Compiler Support for Symphony SDK

to align with our internal C++ version and compiler in use for quant library and risk engines in the environment C++ 20 on Windows : VS2019 version 16.11.31. ( May migration to VS2022 in near future) on Linux: gcc 11.2
11 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Duplicate flow to put new flow in same folder as original flow

Currently when duplicating a flow in CP4D the new flow is put in the root folder and not in the same folder as the original flow. Would be better if it worked like legacy and put the new flow in same folder
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Show more job details like in Datastage Director 11.7

Would be great to see if a job is scheduled, what the schedule is, etc. from one screen like we can in 11.7
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Watson Pipeline - Allow dragging flows onto canvas

It is tedious to go into a flow node a bunch of times one at a time. On 11.7 we can just drag flows onto a sequence. This is a major time drag on CP4DAAS.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Schedule Job for Bi-Weekly run

I would like to schedule the job Bi-weekly on every Thursday. However when I create a job it's not showing any option for running job on Bi-Weekly basis. It would be helpful if we have option for scheduling a job for Bi-weekly. We need to move our...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 2 Submitted

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Provide option to start pre-start service with preferred resource group

Currently, only standby service supports to start service on preferred resource group. Request to have such option with pre-start service as well as the first time run will always slow with standby service
12 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Support federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
12 days ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted