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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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Enable License (LS) Visibility on Spectrum Application Center

We would like users to have visibility of the availability of solver license on LSF Application Center. We are using version 10.2.0.9 and were told by support that this feature is no longer supported. This is necessary as it enables users to have ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Application Object Branding

Allow for branding of application objects such as lists, prompts, and other objects. Currently, the object itself (e.g. list header, background color, fonts, etc.) has limited or no customization options. When creating branded templates for report...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

DV Admin should be able to manage access of more than one "My Virtualized Data" at the same time. See TS004587996.

TS004587996 has all the details. The current UI design only allow one my virtualized data to be managed at a time. In order to manage access of one virtualized data, 7 to 10 clicks are required. With 70 virtualized data to manage, this quickly bec...
about 4 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Default will be set to view members only (hierarchy structure on left) to mimic analysis studio

Default will be set to view members only (hierarchy structure on left) to mimic analysis studio
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for CLOB data typs

Support for CLOB data type, for the substring and position functions. Currently you can only use the functions to string fields, and converting a CLOB to a string will not work if the CLOB is over 4000 characters. The Vendor specific functions, su...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted