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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 SYSTOOLS and SYSFUN schemas to be permitted separate from SYSCTRL

Currently, SYSCTRL is required for creation of procedures/functions with schemas SYSFUN or SYSTOOLS, i.e. when running DSNTIJRT. We would like schemas such as "SYSTOOLS" and "SYSFUN" to be able to be permitted/granted separately from SYSCTRL, as S...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Not recreation WeX Facets in Discovery

Currently, the customer has more than 40 facets that using per facet multiple dictionaries or even regex rules plus dictionaries. Those scenarios are not able to be set in discovery. The customer is exporting each facet as pear file to be importe...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Stemming instead of lemmatization for exact match search in Spanish

Customer needs exact match search, same as WeX Content Analytics. R&D teams has given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. It solved some issues such as Spanish accents and missing characters, but there are still ...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Interpreting Oracle CLOB columns as CSV files

Currently crawler configuration reads CLOB columns as CVS files. The customer has the TS010224689 PMR. Support and R&D teams have given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. The customer requires a solution since a...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Facet hierarchies - groups

Admin cannot set facet hierarchy for all users. The current procedure is create a facet hierarchy per user, further the worse issue is that hierarchy is only kept in the browser cache.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Handle roles per instance

They need admin role and read only role per Discovery instance. It is a must due to several analysts require to access data without set any configuration of the project or collection. It is a must
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Could we integrate SPSS statistic into Cloud Pak for Data?

As Cloud Pak for Data is a unify data science platform. It would be more powerful if we integrate our strong offering- SPSS statistic.
about 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Minimum Column Width size

There is no minimum column width size. This creates issues where in some columns we only have 1 digit (EG 0 or 1). We cannot reduce the size of the coloumn to be able to just show the digit, the coloumn has a fixed minimum width size. multiple fie...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Field translation issues

Previously in some fields (MCC for example) we would only see the MCC in field hovering over would give us the explanation. Now all within text box (Problem due to what now was 4 digit column has to be a sentence, meaning less overall data on scre...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration