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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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controller datasource

Provide support for Controller datasource in Cognos analytics
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Default value for DECLARED GLOBAL TEMPORARY Table

Current default for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. We would like to have the ability to change this via a zparm to ON COMMIT DROP TABLE so that we maximize our thread resuse.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Define ES path.data at install or remind to set it after install.

When install LSF Explorer server + ElasticSearch, there's no way to define ES' path.data parameter and the parameter always set to default, which may not be the correct location. At least in installation guide or after installation completed, remi...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Error message change required while attempting to create a service on Lite Plan

Customers are trying to create an Analytics Engine service on a Lite Plan and see the following error: "[500, Internal Server Error] Service provisioned failed. Try again later. You will now be redirected to the console dashboard."
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

InformixHQ - Backup Sensor

I would kike InformixHQ Backup Sensor notify me whenever Backup Level 0 is greater than 24 (hours). But the Backup Sensor did not work with "hours format", just "timestamp", so It is impossible to know when the backup is older than 24 hours becau...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

API to Retrieve Chat History

An API to retrieve the chat history per session or conversation ID. Currently the only way to do this is through the Logs API, and this is a lengthy and complicated process.
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Changed description of Japanese online help for Synonym of Modeler database node

n the "Database" dialog box, the "シノニムSynonym" setting description is displayed as "類義語Synonym" in the Japanese version of Modeler, so I want to match the online help with the actual product display. Japanese online help (eg Modeler 18.0.0)SPSS ...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration