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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Automatically trim leading and trailing spaces from Variable Names

A colleague was struggling with getting a Time Series model to work. The issue turned out to be that there were leading and trailing spaces on the target variable name. I have seen this happen with client data in the past. The error message that M...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2019 with CA

Clients are proposing infrastructure upgrades that include updates to their server operating systems. Those using Windows servers want to use Server 2019, which is currently not supported by Cognos Analytics (latest version R11.1.3 at time of writ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

Request to Have a Pause Option for MDI/MDE Job from UI & API Level

The DBA of XYZ Database will be giving a timely schedule (~Cool Period to Database) to run MDI & MDE Job due to Huge/Multiple Users Connections to DB at peak Hours. Let's say if I scheduled a Job to run on a particular interval of time, if the...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Adding AD LDAP Steward Groups should add the AD Group Users as Individual Stewards

When a LDAP Group (Steward Users LDAP Group) is added all the Users under the LDAP Group should be shown up as Stewards. Currently in IGC: LDAP Groups added under IGC -->Administration --> Manage Stewards, Users under the LDAP Group does not...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

PAW: Realtive design of books needs to fit page

Currently a book with relative design doesn't fit the page. It always come with a scroll bar. It needs to fit the page without the need for a scrollbar. This could be also treated as a bug.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Support zip64 format on Symphony

Unzip utility used on symphony does not support zip package with zip64. I can see it is currently version 5 from the open source software info zip. If IBM can update it to version 6 it will simply resolve the problem. https://infozip.sourceforge.n...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Delivered

Global search not supported for Custom Properties

Custom Properties are not searchable using Global Search, however, this is supported currently when added via Watson Data API
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Detailed descriptions on reports or other objects do not show

In version 10 easy to see the detailed descriptions on reports or other objects. In version, 11 the only way I can figure out how to see these descriptions is to individually click on each one
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

More graceful handling when 'special character' is entered in OP

When entering certain characters into OpenPages (OP) application, OP gives an error message and terminates the user's session. The error message is: 'Malicious attack has been detected. Your session has bee terminated. ' This has occurred on the '...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 11 Delivered