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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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Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Add user from Active Directory in PAW

Comparable to adding users in Perspectives (Server > Security > Clients/Groups ... > Add new client) the function to add a user from the Active Directory is currently missing.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

Option to open a dashboard with filter panel collapsed

I would like the ability to open a dashboard with the dashboard filters panel collapsed until the user selects the option to expand the filters panel.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Add ability to scan API lineage for BigQuery

Add ability to scan API lineage Milestone Epic in github: https://github.ibm.com/wdp-gov/tracker/issues/172457
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Configurable Caching for Published Asset Previews in Catalogs

Reference: IBM Case TS017201519 – Slow Loading of Published Assets in Catalog Background: We have been facing performance issues when previewing published assets in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). During periods of heavy usage, the preview loading ti...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Modified pipeline parameter values are not reflected in the jobs without manual edit

The modified pipeline parameters are not automatically reflected in the associated jobs after publishing a pipeline with a newer version. This behavior is consistent across both the On-Prem ControlHub and Platform Control Hub though with slight di...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Control Hub Platform - "Get Default Parameters" option not found in Job configuration

We have observed that in the Streamsets On-Prem Control Hub, there is an option called “Get Default Parameters“ available in the job configuration. This feature allows users to revert job parameters to their default values as specified in the pipe...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

command-level job starters should work with bsub

According to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=starters-about-job command-level job starters (using LSF_JOB_STARTER env variable) do not work Are user-defined. They run interactive jobs submitted using lsrun, lsgrun, or ch. Com...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Needs more information

Spooler error/Query error issue

Widely used package - huge filter - 20-30 prompt pages - more or less - don't like to save in HTML, like to bring into Excel - User experience is.. run in Thoughtspot (6 mos of data), night and day - maybe cached, whereas Cognos runs seasonal/18 m...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted