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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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  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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Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

XML Node cannot handle multiple values for a XML element

XML data source picks up the first value for an XML element with multiple values. All other values for the same XML element are ignored. When I use the XPath expression, the fields having multiple value is dropped, and takes on a NULL value. While...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

For drop downs: Dependent values should be automatically removed when person unticks the related drop-down value form another field

This would benefit all the users who are using multiselect drop-down lists, which include additional dependent fields. This would significantly improve the data quality. This is especially needed for the financial fields, however useful for other ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Provide a Tab prompt that can be used in the Prompt Page

The new Tab control provided in a newer release can only be used in the Report Page Targeted to Report Studio
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email notification when a job is suspended

Customer would like to receive notification when a job has been suspended and resumed either via a threshold or preemption/resumption by License Scheduler.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve Suspended Reasons for License Scheduler Jobs

"Presently, when a job is suspended by License Scheduler, it pushes a suspended reason to LSF as follows: ""Preempted by License Scheduler"", which customers have said is insufficient. They would rather know which project or cluster caused the sus...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enable Query Studio for Chrome browser

As of today Query studio works on all browsers except on Chrome. It helps our end users who are chrome-based as of today.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web to have copy values, journals and opening balance functions

Current Controller Web 10.3 FP1 does not have copy functions for company level like in Controller Client. to include all company level functions into Controller Web so that users can perform the same tasks as Client users. instead of asking group/...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Various Components of the Current Scheduler Adlgorithm

Currently, though the Scheduler supports threads, the processing is not a thread per bucket, but rather a threads that are used on a per bucket basis and buckets are still handled serially, which has led us to Host Match times around 400 seconds. ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration