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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support for MS SQL Server 2019 as Content Store database

Ultimate Software (US) is planning migration to SQL Server 2019 as the standard RDBMS version for all applications using MS SQL Server. Supported conformance for SQL Server 2019 as a Content Store will allow US make the move for all platforms sinc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Notification on data asset update/delete or new data asset addition in catalog

Whenever any new data asset added or existing updated and deleted, application need to know those changes and get updated tags/data classes from catalog.Requirement to keep in sync both catalog and application.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow give others access in specefic skilss also, not WA instance only

i want to be able to give access for others user for specific skills not only WA instance, because i am creating 3 different chatbots (skills) for 3 different companies, and when i am about to share access with them , i found that i cannot give ac...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Delivered

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Unlink sheet Without Msg box

I have a detailed P&L report whereby I need to use VBA macro to cycle through a list of 20 or so elements to create a P&L report for each department. As I am using Quick report, the macro will create a new tab with the new department code,...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Display Text in Crosstab Fact Cell

Currently the Crosstab only supports numerical data which will be summarized for display by dimensions, but in current scenario where there is a lot textual data which needs to be pivoted there needs a way to show them as categories in crosstab
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Add Excel As Accepted File Format

We have a client that requested asking Natural Language queries about all their documents which include Excel and Powerpoint files.
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Setup different timeout values for OLTP and BATCH, thus to reduce application lock wait time.

Setup different timeout values for OLTP and BATCH, thus to reduce application lock wait time. Description: - This requirement is focusing on the deadlock situation happened between different databases. - DEADLOCK can only be solved when one of the...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered