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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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Align Prompt Items horizontally

It would be great if there is a possibility for the Checkbox Prompt or Radio Button Prompt to align the dataitems horizontally and not just vertically per default. Sometimes it would be helpful to change the alignment to save space on the report p...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Force the system to register specific characters as normal text

Characters which provide specific function within Safer Payments such as (),{},~,*,? cannot be interpreted as plain text for rule writing. Merchant names, for example, may enter the system with these characters.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Allow for the reference of Rule Name, Rule UID, and Rule Comment within a conclusion

Would like the ability to reference the Rule Name, Rule UID, or Rule Comment within a conclusion. For rule auditing, we may assign unique values to an overwritable input on a rule by rule basis. Safer Payments already inherently assigns a Unique V...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Automatic reconciliation of references when an attribute is deleted

When an attribute needs to be deleted, the UI will throw an error advising of any references to said attribute. There could be multiple queries, rules, or other model components using a particular attribute, resulting in dozens or even hundreds of...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

WML multiprocessing support

Multiprocessing using Pythons multiprocesing library works with Notebooks in Watson Studio, but not for deployed WML models. Multiprocessing for DOCPLEX MILP models can significantly reduce time and resources used for solving a set of several mode...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Future consideration

Add "recovering" state into spark-magic

If the Spark Driver itself crashes(Due to cluster or Job missconfiguratons) and Livy tries to restart it but failes, Livy will get leave the session in Recovering state and never remove it until the Livy Recovery Directory (Specified in /opt/ibm/d...
over 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Planned for future release

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Licenses tab: Being able to track Licenses without the users logging in

Hi As per the IBM Support, the Licenses tab can only count the users that Logged in at least once but not the users that have been assigned roles but have yet to Login
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration