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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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Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Clear instructions/information panel on using Document Classifier trained with custom dictionaries

Document classifiers are extremely valuable in programmatically sorting document types based on its content. The document classifier in WDS can be trained solely on parts-of-speech or in combination with additional assets such as custom dictionari...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Automatic refresh of object list after reopening Excel and changing the security

When reopening Planning Analytics for Excel (Excel) after modifying the security, the list of the accessible objects is not refreshed until we click on the refresh button of PAfE. This is confusing in some situation. Is it possible to make the ref...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Tensorboard support on job monitoring

TensorBoard is TensorFlow’s visualization toolkit enables tracking metrics like loss and accuracy, visualize the model graph, view histograms of weights, biases, or other tensors as they change over time, and much more. A managed TensorBoard suppo...
about 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Schedule to run a rule over a certain period of time

We are looking for a way within Safer Payments to batch rules over historic transactions. We basically want to schedule to run a rule over a certain period of time. Essentially we are looking for rules that do not trigger as transactions come in, ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Use separate HLQs for read-only and updateable product libraries in TCz

TCz should provide an option to allow a customer to specify different HLQs to separate read-only and updateable libraries during product customization. For security and auditing reasons, this separation is required.
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration