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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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Improve OPL Interfaces by providing dynamically typed API and a “façade” compatible with the .NET framework

Using OPL interface in .Net is cumbersome. Manipulate data elements object and result is far from being trivial.By example, instantiate an int look like that: OplDataSource dataSource = new MyCustomDataSource(oplF); internal class MyCustomDataSour...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Improve OPL Interfaces by providing field access infer by using the OPL model schema

Modify coefficient, adding variable, iterate on tupleset, modifiing dataElements and almost all operation in the OPL interface are really counter intuitive. Object uses by OPL are not directly compatible with the framework object. Ituple!= Tuple. ...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Dynamic Cube Administration Security Seperation

Separate Dynamic Cube Administration capabilities from System Admin....
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for DB2 ZOS

Certain components of CP4D such as Data Refinery and Watson Studio, since version 4.6 state they no longer support DB2 ZOS as a platform connection type. We have been informed by the help desk on multiple tickets that DB2 ZOS is no longer supporte...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration

Load Metadata – change the default behaviour to “not selected checkbox” for the new tables

All new Tables receive by default a selected checkbox and therefore are being loaded by the next Load Metadata process, if they remain selected. If a lot of new not relevant Tables are coming, it means, that all of them should be excluded manually...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Ability for users to deploy Cognos content between environments

Provide functionality that empower users to deploy Cognos Analytics content between environments (Dev, QC, UAT, Prod) without requiring access to copy deployment archive zip files between environments.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Force Save button

It would be nice to force a save on a record, even if it has not been updated. Business use case: A risk record has a control attached. The control has values that are used in a calculation for risk rating that is stored on the risk. The control...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Open multiple Application objects at once in PAx

With the change made to where Applications sit within PAx, there are now more clicks to open application objects. In Perspectives you would just use the application tree to navigate to the location of your objects and double click to open. If you ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add auto calc toggle in PAx cube viewer

Add an autocalc toggle to the cube viewer like the one that exists in the Perspectives cube viewer and Explorations.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration