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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Children Section in Admin View should include Copy Associated action.

The new Admin View in 8.3 allows us to add the Dynamic Children section, which shows all the child relationships for the object (similar to the "Associations" listings on the left side pane of the old standard UI). This is great as it allows us to...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Updating free text search instruction

We are using Free Text Search which is great for the customers, however is it possible to update the instructions note provided against the Free Text Search? Every customer is unique and they need not necessarily be a super user to understand the ...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration