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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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Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying TOCOPY on a RECOVER

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "TOCOPY" in the "list-options-spec" section of the "RECOVER" page.3) Receive following error when attempting to use a ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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...
about 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...
about 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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 global health monitoring to include "sick DB2" scenario

Enhance DB2 global health monitoring to include "sick DB2" scenario encountered in PMR 34910,082,000. In that particular case, DDF work continued routing to the sick member, instead of to only healthy members, and our customers were severely impac...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup/Restore Functionality of PAW assets

Improve backup and restore in PAW, more flexible backup and restore: provide functionality to backup and restore personal folders/books for admins backup and restore via Life Cycle Management (move content to another location?)
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Allow users to scroll Excel reports in PAW when the cursor is in the report area

In PAW workspace one can scroll up and down when the cursor is not within the excel report area. However, The scrolling function will not work in PAWworkspace when the mouse cursor is within the excel report. PAW should allow users to scroll withi...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support JSON Output Format for the LSB Stream File

We have a number of downstream uses for the LSB Stream file. One of the downsides of the current format is that it can be difficult to read and parse. If this file where had an options to be written in JSON format, it would be much easier to consu...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

A function that brings up words that are similar in usage from a certain word

< Assumed procedure> (1) Prepare the original word (seed) (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sentence expressions if possible)(2) Estimate and output words that are used in the same way as Seed from the input sentences.(3) Check the wo...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration