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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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Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: View options are not saved

When you change the options in Viewer these settings are not saved. It is not very practical that hierarchy names are not shown by default.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Split License Scheduler log files

License Scheduler does not have the function to split log files(bld.log and blcollect.log). Could you please add a function to split the log file as below? bld.log.hostname bld.log.hostname.1 bld.log.hostname.2 bld.log.hostname.3 blcolle...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt PEM file for PAW

Currently, the pa-workspace.pem, while base64, is in an unencrypted format. Since this file contains the private key for the certificate, it can be vulnerable to back actors. When a company's wildcard certificate is used in the PEM file, the risks...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User welcome mail

When adding a new user to CPD we have to provide a mail address and a default password to create the user. After that, we have to send the username and the password to the user on another way. It would be nice to automatically send a welcome mail ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Can we get dimension properties (attributes) included when using MDX cube view as a data source for TI? It would provide dramatically faster processing.

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over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages supports SAML SSO with multiple IdPs #cpfield

It would very helpful that OpenPages would support SAML SSO with multiple IdPs. In terms of technical perspective , we understand we can configure this. However , we also know there are some issues like the below. - Cross-track links in Cognos...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration