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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cgroups CPU subsystem support

We want to ensure that jobs get the CPU time according to the amount of slots requested, especially on nodes shared by multiple jobs. This has always been an important goal in HPC environments. To achieve this we can use affinity, however CPU affi...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Status labels for dialog nodes

For every dialog node, user will be able to add status labels with color code to the node for their own references. Example of labels: draft (red), in review (orange), reviewed (cyan), final (green), etc
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Additional TI Functions

Add additional TI functions to perform repetitive tasks. For example clearing a section of a cube. There a number of TI libraries that have been created to simplify such tasks. It would be good if this type of functionality can be consolidated as ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

PA Workspace books - Conditional filtering based on values.

Currently only "Top or bottom filter can be applied on Members, Percent & Sum. Would like to have additional Conditional filtering feature which can be applied on any Dimension element(numeric/string values) of a cube-view.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

On prem DQM cube builds should retrieve data though local network and not through the cloud.

For Cognos Analytics Cloud , the Transformer Cube builds that happen on-prem at the customer should retrieve data using a direct connection to the database instead of retrieving that data through the cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable download button in Knowledge Catalog

When cataloging data assets from COS, users are given a 'Download' option to bring the data out from the catalog and store locally. There should be an option to enable/disable this functionality provided to administrators of the catalog and the us...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration