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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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Categorize/Organize Filters for easier access

Currently the dashboard has drastically increased the requirements for more filters. These filters clutter the user's Gridviews with dozens of filters. It would be nice to be able to categorize filters as 'For Grid View' and 'For Admin/Dashboards'.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

"Data Smoother" regression line on plot node isn't able to add value with binary data

When trying to visually understand the relationship between a boolean value compared to a continuous numeric feature, the default and only choice for "data smoothing" is a LOESS regression line. It produces only a line that jumps between both bina...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhanced error messaging when loading external data sources to the input node, specifically SAS datasets with data issues

Currently, there is little to no error messaging given for loading data from SAS datasets containing data that is unable to load. In our case, a SAS dataset dimply fails with no message regarding a large dataset with a single row containing data t...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support for Cognos Analytics 11.2 and above

We have been using SPSS Statistics connecting to our legacy data warehouse. We have moved out datasources to Cognos Analytics and user will only be able to access datasources through Cognos. However SPSS statistics is not compatible with Cognos An...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Names of mandates,submandates, and reqs coming from TRRI feed should be more meaningful

Currently a sample mandate name would look like this: N2337B6702C3811E193E9A4A10117562A By giving it a proper name finding the right mandate would become much easier, Also the context tree maps would become much more useful. This applies to submat...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

PAW - Heatmap Visualization - Display detailed values in legend instead of only MIN/MAX

As now in PAW 2.0.63 in New experience, the heatmap legend is only indicating the min/max values and do not give any further details about the heat graduation values. This does not allow users to estimate easily the gap between each "heat".
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

System Audit Log for tracking submissions

Users would like to refer to a log on the changes in the status of the submissions for a particular period in the Controller Web. The information required is: -The time and date of the change in submission status (ie. missing, ready etc) -The enti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration