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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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Remotely disconnect

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). For us, it would be interesting to have the possibility to remotely disconnect a user and withdraw the license.
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

best LLC formation service

If you’re looking to form an LLC, you probably already know that there are many options. Many entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the idea of registering a limited liability company themselves, but also don’t have the budget to hire an attorney. ...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add the concept of project Owner to complement existing project Creator

In addition to project “creator”, each project should have the opportunity to also maintain the current project “owner”. The concept of project owner is important in context of project Collaboration. A project creator may “leave” a project making ...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add SQLTables, SQLColumns, SQLStatistics, SQLSpecialColumns to ODBC API to connect MS Access ODBC

Issue with importing table definition from MS Access DB using Sequelink driver. Receiving unsupported functions on "SQLPrimaryKeys & SQLForeignKeys". Per technote we are trying to access Access DB using Sequelink tool DataStage ODBC drivers fo...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Better details in Audit log for Calculate ownership process

I have logged a call with IBM (TS006004206) regarding the details that the audit log show on the Maintain > company structure >calculate ownership as the report is not providing detailed enough information to establish what has changed or ha...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chat - private communication

In an early release of PAW it was possible to use the chat function to communicate to a specific user by using @-sign. This was removed. Customers are asking for this functionality and it would be great if this functionality returns.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Localizing the file used in the ODBC/DB2 Connectors for the "read select statement from file"

This in regard to PMR/CASE #: TS000099558 ISSUE:DataStage ODBC/DB2 connector with ‘Read select statement from file': file note accessible from Hadoop hi-We have a DataStage job with odbc connector and the select statement is set to 'Read select ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration