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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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Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Adding of Existing Element to New Hiearchy

When creating a new hierarchy, or editing an existing hierarchy, you can't add an existing element (one that you created previously and exists in the Leaves hierarchy, or another hierarchy). It complains that it 'already exists' even though it DOE...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Dropping Primary Keys

Allow the following syntax for dropping a primary key : alter table table-name drop primary key;
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

WKC search engine enhacements (including API) for it to be more Google-like

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort of Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the sear...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

DataStage roles (allow migration but not editing or creation of jobs)

We need a new role that allows for migration of jobs but does not allow for the creation and editing of jobs. This is for separation of duties.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Lifecycle Management Server Mappings for Local Install

Provide the capability to map different environments (like Dev and Prod) in the Source and Target mappings of Lifecycle management so objects can be migrated between different PAW environments within a Planning Analytics Local install.
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Avoid WKC quality project blank due to some certificate expiry

Asset list in WKC quality project gone/blank suddenly someday. Feel like whole system done. Customer been told the reason is : some certificate will be expired unpredicted someday between 10-13 months, not sure which day. Could we give enough time...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

external loader with mutiple schemas but same table names across the schemas

some users modeler use only the table names without a specifying the name of the schema when writing to a database. There are situations were there are multiple schemas with the table name. This situation would has been known to cause serious prob...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE Watson Search results found words highlighting

We would to highlight found string in Watson Search results of MDM CE.For example we search for "ap", then in the search results we see items that have "application" and "apartment".We would like this "ap" in each found word to be highlighted.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration