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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Delete scripts, Shiny apps from Projects

In a Watson Studio Project it is possible to delete many types of assets: data assets, notebooks, refinery flows, ... To delete an asset from a project, we can choose the Delete or the Remove option from the action menu next to the asset on the pr...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Improve C11 URL performance

After C11 upgrade, we updated the C10 URL's embedded in some reports in order to use new URL syntax. The C11 URL's are slower.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Excel worksheets with password protection

My feedback concerns the TM1 Excel add-in (PAX) version 2.0.49.1 (64 bit) and its use with Excel Office 365. If you password protect a tab in Excel, whenever you click on that tab, I think the TM1 add-in runs a recalc resulting in a pop-up message...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show description of data asset by Magazine view in Knowledge Catalog data asset list

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points The customer can't see the data asset description in Knowledge Catalog's data asset list. -state your current workaround(s) Now the customer see the description by opening the ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Parametarized URL, passing Datasource Signon

For some datasource we have several Signon used for different group of people. Some people have suffisant privilege to use more than one Signon, so when launching a report, they are prompted for the Signon to use. The reports are launched from int...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete Old Platform Connections

As source systems are phased out of organizations, there is a need to remove previously configured platform connections in cloud pak for data, particularly when any assets from that platform connection have been removed from cloud pak for data. We...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Is a defect

Support for Custom Transformer (Parallel) Routines in DFD

DataStage Flow Designer in 11.7 does not support custom parallel transformer routines. When attempting to compile a job that uses a custom transformer routine from the DataStage Flow Designer interface, compilation fails. This results in a hard de...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration