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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.

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.

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


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Alert on Cryptographic key near expiry

As per http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21341113 the cryptographic keys expire after 365 days (default setting), we recently fell foul of this as our keys expired and Cognos stopped working. We would like an alert when these are ne...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export as a Gantt Chart

Our customer is looking for the ability to export as a Gantt Chart for reports. They would like to be able to select this as an option, similar to Viewing the report in HTML, PDF, XML, and Excel. I have followed other cases for Gantt Charts within...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy and paste full result set from an output table

SPSS Modeler V14.1 had the functionality of cutting and pasting a large amount of resultant rows from a stream output table. This functionality has been lost with the newer versions of SPSS Modeler. Currently, SPSS Modeler v17 prompts with an inac...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Not under consideration

Support user-defined Python module

I would like to maintain a set of Python functions and classes in a separate model/script, then do an import from that module in a notebook and DO4DSX model.Use cases:* I want to move complex function definitions out of my notebook. The functions ...

Add Search Capability on Workflow Instances view

Would like the ability to search on the Name field when on the Workflow Instances view. At times we need to terminate a workflow and there may be thousands of active workflows, so paging through the list attempting to find which object workflow to...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration