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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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Support for DATETIME data type field in OpenPages

please introduce Date Time field in Open Pages in the future releases. Currently Open Pages has no DATETIME option available while creating a field to hold timestamp value. Business case -> To know how many templates are approved on time, let’s...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Alma 8

Request is to certify Db2 LUW on Alma Linux 8 as the replacement for CentOS. Research indicates: RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos 7 and 8 with Alma Linux. There will not be a Centos 9. RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Data Refinery - add annotation on a per step basis

When creating refinery flows please add the ability to document or add comments to each step in the flow.
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Support for DB2 ZOS

Certain components of CP4D such as Data Refinery and Watson Studio, since version 4.6 state they no longer support DB2 ZOS as a platform connection type. We have been informed by the help desk on multiple tickets that DB2 ZOS is no longer supporte...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration

"Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs support for Python 3.10 and 3.11 Support for IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.*

It can be challenging to motivate/influence the Spark community to use the latest Python version which can delay the ability of Spectrum Conductor to use the latest Python version. "Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs compatible with Python 3.10.*...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Future consideration

Job and query execution by predefined time intervals

Create the possibility of executing queries, jobs and other data selection operations by a set of predefined time intervals like "last hour", "last day", "last week", "last month", etc.. It should be possible to apply these predefined time period ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Allow Query set operations between packages or data modules

You can add data from multiple packages that use the dynamic query mode. However, Query set operations (join, union, intercept, except) are supported only for the default package or data module. Not being able to join queries built from different ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Setting CNDS to work in AWS Cloud based RDS

Our CADS 8.3 system has been installed in AWS Cloud. It has worked well for a couple of years. Recently the RDS instance that contains the CADS repository was set to enable SSL and CADS stopped working. IBM support Ticket TS014997706 was establish...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Custom Nodes with native Python (not PySpark)

In Modeler 18.5, there are Extension nodes which run native Python scripting (Pandas-based), but not Custom Nodes. In previous versions, the Extension nodes allows PySpark scripting AND Custom Nodes with PySpark. It would be nice to have the abili...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration