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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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Creation and administration of Applications an Plans for non-admin users

Due to our environment there are very restrictive administrator rights. For changes in an existing application no matter how big it is, we have to create a ticket by the PAW Administrators. It would be very helpful if a PAW Modeller can manage Pla...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to control package based routing options in deployment process

Assuming package based routing is set in a production environment. The routing properties will be overwritten and are unset after importing a deployment file that was created in an environment without packaged based routing. The requested function...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support rich-text in annotations

Annotations should allow rich-text to provide formatting capabilites like bullet or numbered lists, bold, underlined and italic text and so on.It would be nice to allow ASCIIDoc or Markdown formatting (like in Jira or Gitlab).
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

whether to automate elimination of permission to "group" in jupyter notebook files

During the creation of instance group and notebooks the file permissions are 660 giving access to the group to be able to copy data to their notebook environment.
about 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

The request for return of funds DP webservice requires that the client pass an internal FTM

The request for return of funds DP webservice requires that the client pass an internal FTM unit of work ID of either the FTM txnID or the DP txnID of the master credit transfer. The client channel has no visibility into these internal FTM IDs and...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Running Spark Master as cluster admin user

Currently Spark Master runs as the execution user specified in the SIG which happens to be different from cluster admin and depends on SIG tenant/consumer group. That spark master resources such as logs are owned by tenant user makes it difficult ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Not under consideration