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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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Adding Statistical Metric to Computation Methods

Currently, the computation methods available within SP for profiling attributes is limited. For example, for calendar profiles all that is available is: average amount, frequency, total amount . Standard Deviation is available for this category of...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

TM1 Server is Ready Alert

Currently we have alerts set when the windows services associated with a TM1 server instance stops and when it is "running", however, these alerts are not a true indicator that the server instance is available/online in PA for our users as it is n...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make FTM IP Purge Utility OCP Compatible

Purge Utility delivered with FTM IP can be configured using a Cron job to trigger it run and purge transactions in FTM Database. Since FTM IP/DP has been configured on OCP now, we expect FTM Purge Utility to be OCP Compatible. As of now Utility is...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

No way to test Powershell scripts on the Data tier in the cloud environment

Configuring email to work on the cloud for our customer was very difficult because there was no way for me to test my Powershell script in the cloud environment. Email access to the SMTP server only worked from the data tier (not the server itself...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter at the same time . For example when copy pasting from Excel.
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Application registration or service principal

While connecting/setting up data sources for Watson Discovery, currently the only option is to include userid/credentials - this is not suitable in enterprise solutions (like our case) where we have multi-factor authentication enabled for userids....
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

DVM Inserts into SQL DateTime2 column

Inserts into Datetime2 datatype column is not supported via DVM. APAR number PH34676 has been opened for this. Opening this AHa icket to track APAR.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix Sample Datasources for Cognos 11 Samples

Cognos Analytics / 11 currently only provides sample data for SQLServer, DB2 and Oracle. Since the ready-to-run version of CA runs its Content Store in an Informix Database it would be useful to be able to run the samples in it as well.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration