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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Add the possibility to use the import specifications created in Controller Classic

At this moment, import specifications in Controller Web doesn't allow to use some elaborate operation like "IF", temporary fields,... It's a blocking point for a lot customers to use Controller Web.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Query Banding retrieving single query name from a cognos report. Report has multiple queries.

Query Banding results are retrieving a single query name even though cognos report has multiple queries in it. Created a P{MR and here is the response from IBM:IBM DEV team confirmed that whenever multiple queries get fired there is a chance we wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make Bayesian Optimization parallelize more

Currently the implementation of Bayesian Optimization in WMLA is completely sequential. This renders it essentially useless for models with long training times. It would be ideal to parallelize it more. There are two angles to this: first, at its ...
about 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Include all metrics (not just the one being optimized) in the output of GET hypersearch

currently when one queries the results of a hyperparameter optimization round in Watson Machine Learning Accelerator, e.g. with https://<>:9243/platform/rest/deeplearning/v1/hypersearch/username-hpo-860740667802465 ... only the metric being ...
about 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Federate Email on Cognos Users

When you schedule reports to be delivered by mail you can select the users from OpenPagesRealm, but those users dont have the email configured and customers need to write all the mails manually.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

cognos configuration compatbility with tls protocol v2.0

my security team asked to change cognos to only accept tls v2.0 web calls. with guidance from support my team deployed and tested the needed changes in a test environment. upon starting cognos services I found we can still see service shutdown det...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Required Tabs Navigation Control at Report Studio Level to navigate from one report to another.

We have a requirement called "Tabs" control, which will be placed on the each report header level. This Tabs control will be configured with multiple reports by having respective report link as one of the Tab. Currently Cognos 11.1R5 (which we are...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Support for JDK1.8 on Solaris Server

Support for JDK1.8 for Cognos 10.2.2 on Solaris servers.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

improve exception logging for connection strings in .NET connector for DB2

While we were attempting to setup SSL connectivity from a .NET app to a DB2 server, we were getting the following error:CLI0157E Error opening a file. SQLSTATE=HY507 a vast majority of the documentation available online (and IBM support) indicated...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration