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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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Can't easily select summaries only in a hierarchy

With the new IBM PA Edit Set, it only allows us to keep or choose Leaf Level with the Attributes and Selector tools. If we could even just have “<>” as the choice for the Level tool, we could get back missing function.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum LSF have the unified management of ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

Request Data Preview Capability in Default Catalog through Generic JDBC

Customer requests 'data preview' function in Default Catalog via Generic JDBC, thereby, data asset can be previewed for database type that doesn’t support by CP4D-WKC in the current stage. (As far as we know only about 3 databases are supported)
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

SFTP External locations for IBM PA Cloud

Currently for File transfer - you can export to a IBM PA Cloud folder, then you get a 3rd party tool to orchestrate the SFTP file transfer to another locations. Would be good if we can call out locations (still secure) that we can target, saving t...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Alternate Hierarchy Limitation: Is there plan to enhance report building and performance when it comes to using alt. hier in PAX?

Currently, only limited to Quick & Exploration. Although Quick is considered as static, it breaks when there are changes to any dimensions and/or alternate hierarchies. This is so frustrating to users. Is there an alternate for using alternate...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQE-DA...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Zelle - Alerting the client when a contact (recipient) is added or updated.

We need to send an alert to our clients when a contact (recipient) is added or updated. We are seeing a lot of fraudulent activity around this. We need to alert the clients when changes are made to ensure that the client was the party that request...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Zelle 1 Delivered

Data replication CDC can't support Oracle AFD(ASM Filter Dirver)

When Oracle is 12c (or above) and configured with AFD(ASM Filter Driver), InfoSphere CDC can't read asm logs correctly
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Make charts show data drop zones by default

Charts hide the drop zones by default, but dragging an item over the chart will automatically show the drop zones.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Amazon S3 connector MFA support

We would like to connect an Amazon S3 connector to crawl our MFA-enabled S3 instance to pull in data to use in the Watson CP4D environment, but the current Amazon S3 connector does not support connecting to MFA-enabled environments.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered