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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.

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


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Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cloud environment Maintenance - Optional Waves

In the Monthly Cloud Environment maintenance that occurs on the 3rd Saturday of each month, have an option to choose a different time frame. ie. from 1AM to 9AM UTC or from 2PM to 10PM
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bring back Host Rank to enable filtering out unreliable sources

Host Rank allowed for filtering out sources with a low score. Without it, offensive, inappropriate, and fake sources creep into the News query results. The current mechanism of submitting individual source complaints is ineffective.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Leverage capabilities of Machine Learning to CDC to enhance the product and make it smart

There are different features in CDC that are usually configured manually based on customer's environment. For example: Refresh (Standard, Differential, External etc), Fast Apply. There are also other environment related configurations like size of...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to search for Users, Groups or Both when performing user/group administration

When adding users or groups to a Role, provide the option (radio buttons) to search for Users, Groups or Both and limit the search on the options selected.
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to select one or more Security Providers when performing user/group maintenance

When adding users or groups to a Role, provide the administrator the ability to select one or more Security Providers when defining the search criteria as opposed to searching all.
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Identify the Security Provider associated with each result in the Available Users/Groups and Users/Groups Assigned panes

In the Edit Users and Groups for Role application window within Deployment Manager, identify the Security Provider associated with each result in the Available Users/Groups and Users/Groups Assigned panes
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Allow different icons to be defined for each custom Security Provider

Allow different icons to be defined for each custom Security Provider within Deployment Manager Server Administration and then use the associated icon where ever Security Provider is referenced/used
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration