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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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Allow for logical operators in Active Directory Search Providers

Provide the ability to use logical operations (AND, OR, NOT) in the search/filter criteria used within the Active Directory/LDAP Service Provider, including the ability to logically define the search scope to more than one OU. For example: Search ...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] Automatic session type removal when removing service

When calling soam wsdl api sdRegisterAppUpdate with a fragment that has operation="Remove", it should be permitted to submit a fragment that specifies service name, but not session type name(s). In this case, all session types that reference the s...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better and intuitive error messages

Better error message in Parallel jobs Error messages often doesn't give any values for developer e.g TR_lag_record,0: Fatal Error: ~APT_PMPlayer: terminating Player (node1, parallel APT_TransformOperatorImplV0S69_CopyOfJOB_G57_LINDORFF_LAAN_DAG_TR...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

OAuth support in exposed web services

Add OAuth as a supported authentication when exposing datastage jobs as web services through the IDS
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add Websphere Application Server Network Deployment support for Cognos 11

Currently Cognos Analytics 11 does not support any Application Server other then the included Websphere Liberty Profile.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Output Format Change for getScore Method in Scoring Service

When using the C&DS Real Time Scoring Service, the output from a SOAP request is not the same format as the input, which is in "name-value pairs." An option to change this XML scoring service output so that the format is similar to the input, ...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Implement XQuery functions present in DB2 LUW but missing in DB2 for z/OS

Quite a lot of XQuery functions that are implemented in DB2 LUW, are missing in DB2 for z/OS. Many of them are very useful, and should be implemented in DB2 for z/OS as well. Here is the complete list (39 functions). We are specifically missing th...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

new bsub option to create chunk jobs

I would like to have a new bsub option to be able to group jobs like 'chunk' does it. Today, chunk is defined at queue level and is not flexible enough as the size of the chunk has only one value. Same remark for the run time of the jobs Thanks fo...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration