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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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Cognos as standard service on Linux

Also applicable for PMR 87056 003 756.Would like to get a good reliable Cognos start / stop / restart / status script for Cognos as a service on Linux that stands in the standards of the Linux daemons: • Start/stop via service interface • Daem...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Non-admins should be able to change datasource (file) of TI on Cloud

Currently only Admin users can change the data source of a TI-process and also upload new source files via Cloud. In a scenario where 10+ different legal entities should upload files each month, all will need to first be sent to the admin user who...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup

We would like to run the backup script for Planning Analytics Workspace without having to close the services
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Active Report with RAVE visualization gauge chart aggregates summary for calculation incorrectly.

IBM Cognos Active Report with RAVE visualization gauge chart aggregates calculation incorrectly.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enh: Appending era name entry of Japanese Imperial calendar

Function request of customer can appending era name entry of Japanese Imperial calendar by themselves. As of now when era name change happens all Japanese customers need to wait and apply fix provided by IBM several weeks after the new era will be...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Dynamic cube deployment import / export

Customer wants dynamic cube deployment import / export feature: They would like to export the dynamic cube from dev and then import in prod like packages. An alternative could be to create an export and then have an option like ""export only dynam...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube - Administrator vs. Data Security

Customer has the requirement to separate Data security from the rest of the security options. E.g. assume the customer has a partner who is performing system administrator tasks but should not be able to see confidential data which is limited to o...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration