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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.

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For reports run interactively, display the report location.

When you run multiple reports with the same name, there is no way from the Welcome drop down to determine each report location making it impossible to differentiate between them. See file Attachments for a screenshot or view this forum post:https:...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
12 months ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Analytics in Read Only Profile for Continual Improvement

BMC Helix integrates Watson Assistant to support Virtual Agent activities for Enterprise customers. The continual improvement process with Helix Knowledgebase (external to Watson) requires Weak Understanding output/analytics access for knowledge w...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Provide better hang information

In the case of a hang, we only have the material for root-cause analysis if we were able to collect db2fodc information before the system became fully unusable. A small moving window of such information written out to disk on a regular basis would...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

PAx Viewer should have option to save View

The Viewer in PAx has no option to save a view(private or public) One has to export to exploration to save a view there instead. This two step process to save a view is silly
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enable the Task View in the TFUI to refresh and save changes within the page

Fields using reporting fragments in the Task View of the Task Focused UI are not refreshing or updating automatically upon saving. End Users are required to refresh or reload the entire page in order for the fields to reflect the updates. (In this...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Simple way to check consistency between DB2 and IDAA

When implementing data replication we found a number of tables showing different number of rows in DB2 and on IDAA (2 IDAAs installed with replication). To verify this we did as follows:- Disable table for acceleration in IDAA1- Run SPUFI with SEL...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

InSync to NOT disable query acceleration

When IBM Integrated Synchronization detects an error condition for a table, that table is removed from acceleration to prevent Db2 from returning stale data because no more updates are synchronized to Accelerator. The incremental update process in...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration