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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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IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

new DB2 SQL/DDL > DECLARE (GLOBAL) TEMPORARY VARIABLE

Db2 v11 introduced CREATE VARIABLE. pretty handy... but it must be created in advance. How about a dynamic SQL/DDL equivalent? DECLARE TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyx OR DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyz It would be useful for anyone (ie. the sam...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Human-readable status response

In the new multiobjective optimization support in CPLEX (Java API, but likely true in other APIs), querying status via IloCplex.getMultiObjInfo(IloCplex.MultiObjIntInfo.MultiObjStatus, ...) returns a numeric code (e.g. 107). This is difficult to i...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Make CADataConnector API also available for ICP4DS

Notebook is available in Cognos Analytics 11.1 with CADataConnector API. It can be used for making connection to Cognos Analytics ( packages, reports and report output ) with read and write access.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Planned for future release

Cognos mobile for Blackberry Dynamics: support a connection via a proxy

The current version of Cognos Mobile for Blackberry Dynamics only supports a direct connection. For security reasons we are using a proxy sever and have connection problems using de Cognos mobile app.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

RTS history table outside DSNDB06

With DB2 12 new function features, IBM added RTS temporal history option. This is an excellent option, considering we used to perform that manually. Unloading and reloading the STATS into a history table. The new option, creates 2 new tables with ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Getdate not supported in Cognos Analytics

Other SQL functions can be used in Cognos Analytics but getdate() is not supported.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add feature to FLV excel export to include field metadata (allowed values for each field)

When users use FLV to export fastmap template for desired objects, they would like the export to include a row(s) showing the field metadata (e.g. showing the field data type or the list of allowed values for enum fields, etc). This way, when they...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration