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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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HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Schedule for daily or hourly web scraping in Discovery SaaS

At the moment Discovery SaaS has a scheduling option for weekly web scrapes, but this option doesn't exist for daily. Implement a scheduling feature that would accommodate daily or even hourly web scrapes. At the most frequent option for scraping ...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Allow for all Action Usage at Merge

It would be beneficial is we could update more than just inputs at the time of Merge. Having the ability to reference all possible actions would provide more flexibility and allow for quicker usage of data. There are payloads that along with updat...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Add parameters to SubsetMDXSet and HierarchySubsetMDXSet to allow invalid/null MDX expressions

SubsetCreateByMDX has a parameter to allow MDX expressions to save even if they evaluate to null or invalid. There should be an equivalent parameter added to the following functions - HierarchySubsetMDXSet - SubsetMDXSet Reason is a lot of times s...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to control cplex memory consumption

Nowadays optimization runs are more and more conducted in the cloud, in kubernetes environments. In kubernetes, the processes run inside containers in what are called pods. To prevent a pod to be killed when the node (machine) capacity is exceeded...

Better support for modern occ communication (i.e. case actions) patterns (REST/OAuth)

Topic of this request are the "case actions" (occ communication) from Safer Payments to any external systems to send/receive data from a cases. Mainly it focuses on the lack of abilities for the “HTTP method” message type that lacks any modern fea...
9 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics (v11) - report in Excel format - Freezing panes

when using Cognos Analytics (v11) to produce a report in Excel format, it does not currently allow to set for Freezing panes, so that when you scroll the output data, the heading row(s) should remain frozen
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

update integrated packages spark3.4.x, miniconda24.4.x, jupyter7.x

integrated packages are outdated in IBM Spectrum Conductor, need newer pkgs to catch up with compliance and security. current miniconda : 4.8.3latest miniconda : 24.4.0 current spark : 3.3.1latest spark : 3.5.x current jupyter : 6.xlatest jupyter ...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

DMC Notification Center resolution handling

We sometimes have over 1,000 warnings on a server (image 001) and the Notification Center does not handle the volume well. We can only display up to 30 alerts on a page and we can only CLOSE, DELETE or EMAIL them (image 002). We would love to have...
9 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted