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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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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.

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Competitive WDS pricing plans for GTS

GTS, one of our big IBM internal clients use Elastic search instead of Discovery. Their key pain point is the pricing for WDS. With Elastic Search they pay $20 / month and get similar capability and results. GTS wants to see a better pricing model...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Cognos CM Tool enhancement

Currently CM Tool is working with only LDAP/AD authentication. Can add OIDC authentication or CAM Password authentication in CM Tool.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

To add new feature to allow different posting account in E300

Current design in E300 only allows one posting account for change in shareholding %, i.e. Acct Change in Own % field. Customer would like this to be enhanced so that they can specify separate accounts for increase and decrease/dilution in sharehol...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add environment_guid as a environment variable when running jobs

When running a jupyter notebook in CP4D, Watson Studio Project, there is an environment variable called environment_guid. This is a very handy environment variable as it contains the guid of the environment associated with the jupyter notebook whe...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Enhancement | Add Shared Secret Functionality for Single SignOn with WAS portal as it was supported in 10.2 COgnos BI version

Hi Team Please Add Shared Secret Functionality was supported in 10.2 Cognos BI version and is out of support in cognos analytics 11.X versions. We use Shared Secert method to have single sign on with out WAS portal where other tools work in parall...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing a data asset from a project or catalog does not delete it from COS

Whenever a data asset gets removed from either a Watson Studio Project or a Watson Knowledge Catalog the actual file is not removed from the underlying Cloud Object Storage bucket. The result is that there will be a lot of unreferenced files in Cl...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Install netstat & Tcpdump by default.

Netstat and tcpdump are useful for customers to troubleshoot any network issue. In BiOC, we have it installed by default. Its missing in IAE. Can we include that as part of the cluster itself? Thank you!
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

LSF: unable to update host resources using bconf

Hello, 1st: not possible to update host resources using bconf although that it is documented in the man pages & bconf help. see ex1 "in use case example" 2nd: another way should be to have an extra sub command to add or remove a specific resou...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

TM1 Data Source signon in Cognos Connection

This request is for the TM1 data source signon in Cognos Connection. When the TM1 model uses CAM authentication the TM1 data source in Cognos Connection will always authenticate with the CAM passport of the user that logged into Cognos Connection....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration