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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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Allow inclusion of sub-mandator model(s) in upper-mandator simulations.

For those using a multi-mandator structure, it is currently possible to include model components from an upper-mandator when running a simulation on the sub-mandator due to the inheritance feature. However, it is not possible to do the opposite: i...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Python 3.9 and Runtime environments in CP4D

As we’ve mentioned in regards to CP4D upgrades there are certain features/services that gets deprecated and removed in later versions For example Python 3.9 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=overview-whats-new#whats-new__d...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Full Information Maximum Likelihood method(Estimation method to assign missing values)

I would like to see "Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)" added as a missing value assignment method in SPSS Statistics. FIML is a powerful method for handling missing data in statistical modeling. By using all available information in the ...
4 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted