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


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Refining Error Messages for Better Service Association in Watsonx.ai

When associating services to a project, users are often confused because services like Watson Studio, which cannot be associated, are also displayed. Moreover, when trying to associate such non-associable services, an error message is displayed sa...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Option to completely restrict report output to save to a report

Cognos analytics has option to restrict report output and history for any report which can be configured from report properties advanced options for Report output versions. From this option we can only restrict output versions to be saved to minim...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Show unformatted pending reasons with bjobs -UF

Information for PENDING REASONS remains formatted for the command "bjobs -UF [-p|-p0|-p1|-p2|-p3] <jobid>" which makes it hard for scripts to parse the output. Current output: $: bjobs -UF -p3 <jobid> ... PENDING REASONS: Candidate hos...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Using distinct subsets and/or dimension attributes on distinct views on a same tab/book

Customer has a book with two views, one is a exploration, the other is a bar graph. Both this views are using the same cube and dimensions. A dimension (Region) has as its names/codes values are MS1, MS2, MG1, MG2 and so on. Captions for these ele...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

SAS ODBC Connectivity with DataStage

Need capability to use SAS ODBC connection with Data Stage.
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 3 Future consideration

Members in the data tree (hide/disable)

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos 11.1.7 and we would like to control "Members in the data tree" for Dashboards (with Package as Data Source) to have an ability to decrease the load on our server (in case we will have performance issues ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Creating new batch service

Hi Team, We would like to have 2 batch services set up for Cognos Controller on Cloud to run the 2 consolidations together which we already have a set up in on-prem environment and we would like to have the same on IBM cloud.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

ZSAV extension support for Data Files

In SPSS Modeler included in Cloud Pak for Data, as supported Data File extension, there are plenty types, but the zsav format (the one used most often by the customer) which does not appear to be present in the list. It would be a good idea to inc...
12 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Ability to managed Administration password by Wallets and SFTP or FTP process

Many clients are tightening security around how administration passwords and secrets are managed including storage. My client has stringent security protocols as such would like to have the ability to managed passwords via Wallet and SFTP process ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration