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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add control in Controller around adding forms to a form set

It is currently possible to assign a form to a form set without any control. In some cases that form may get associated with two submissions that are assigned to one actuality and Period.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle 18c support in DataStage v11.5

There seems to no support for connecting to Oracle 18c Database from DataStage 11.5 or 11.7
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Support for accessing deployment directory in start/stop script

This is for Windows and Linux platforms. Please contact Anthony Frery and Scott Campbell for Windows support. We are using the ASC part of the conductor, in our application, we deploy application package, and the package contains necessary files n...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.2.1 1 Not under consideration

PSUSP jobs need JOB_CONTROLS

Users need notifications when jobs are PSUSP due to pre-exec failures, and JOB_CONTROLS do not work because the job isn't RUN when it is suspended. We also need a tunable parameter to have these jobs killed after some amount of time.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from.A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Instance Account Parameters

As per our company AD rules we need either the TSM (DB2) instance account to accept dashes '-' or for IBM to support AD Alias' See PMR - TS000957160
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Download/List an asset from catalog from HTTP API

When using the watson APIs to retrieve assets, it responds asset metadata only. As a data engineer/scientist, I need to: List URIs of available data assets from a given catalog Download asset content from a given asset URI/id It will benefi...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release