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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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Enhanced error information for data modules

Data modules are created and used for extended periods of time without changing and multiple reports are built off them. If a data source is renamed or moved multiple reports fail, however the error message they generate don't point the data modul...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX - Request for Commit API for Exploration Views

Currently, there is a Commit API available in PAX for Quick Reports. This allows the use of Excel VBA to commit data to TM1 via an Action Button calling the API. For an Exploration View, there is no Commit API that is available/documented that can...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

There is no function to set a seed in the balance node.

We never get same records because there is no function to set a seed in the balance node. It is important to have fixed records while we attempt to build better model.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Transfer metadata enrichment from one to another exactly similar asset from another connection

If MDE is done on a connected data asset is there a way to transfer all enrichment (e.g., data clsses, auto term assignments, etc.) to another connected data asset with exactly same metadata b ut different connection?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

My parameters feature - improved security evaluation

Hello, we are using the My parameters feature in cognos where from one place we can share the prompt selection cross many reports as default option. We have a lot of security in our system including data source/package levels. When using my parame...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Add field to bhosts -o

In the latest LSF version, bhosts -o does not have a field to show Reserved resources value. Could you please add a field for memory reserved column in bhosts -o? We can check Reserved Memory in bhosts -l, but it would be helpful if we coul...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Planned for future release

Access logs and other cloud analytics for strategic planning

When users only open the application form with their id, we are unable to get their login/logoff credentials, despite our best efforts in analytics planning. Seeing login logs for just users who are completing actions in application was enabled in...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

How to check API usage

Situation/Task: Request to get the number of queries for Enterprise plan instance. Result: Currently there's no function to get the number of queries if the instance has unlimited queries.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Render Text from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards

Ability to render free form (unstructured) text such as user comments from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards. Currently, text sourced from IBM Planning Analytics does not render in Cognos Analytics reports and dashboards. Ide...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration