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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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Edit counter dimension in Cognos web

We use dimensions in PL and BAL reporting and therefore also counter dimension in intercompany transactions. It is possible to enter and update this variable in the thick client, but not in the web client. As this is crucial in our intercompany re...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Data Quality Score in Catalog Search

Adding a column in the asset search window that shows the quality score of data assets (much like Watson Analytics and Data Connect do). This is extremely helpful as we can then create policies that don't allow users to use data assets below x sco...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

automatically send newly created content from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support to automatically send newly created content from a data source since the last time data was sent and ingested into Discovery. Currently the data platform has no mechanism for identifying new content since...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability re-process documents without re-ingestion

Currently we need to re-ingest documents to update any enrichment. This is specifically not very practical when we have WKS model involved. If the model is refined & updated, we need to re-ingest the docs. This is very annoying for customers ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

'parallel_mqthread' parameter for Db2 LUW

Customer operates the IRS both on z/OS and LUW. IRS on z/OS supports parallel_mqthread parameter , but that is not supported on LUW. He requests to support it for LUW as well to improve performance.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Provide a less database centric view of data sources

The data platform needs to provide a less Database centric view of each supported data source. Currently any user wanting to move data from a source such as Salesforce is required to have a deep understanding of the database structure and associat...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release