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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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enable pureScale to support AD/VAS authentication and not require the presence of the instance owner id in /etc/password.

At Bank of America, we have strict standards and requirements for db2 authentication. We use Active Directory across the enterprise and use the vas tool from quest to access AD from the linux environment. We do not store passwords in /etc/password...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Watson Assistant Web Chat persist state when refreshing page in browser

It would be good to maintain state of chats on on page refreshes. It is usually available with all web chat widgets. For example Zendesk presists state when page is refreshed. I assume they will be keeping visitor ID in the cookie
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Knowledge Center Search Issues

The IBM info center (online searchable documentation) has become less and less useful over the years. Documentation on a topic is often fragmented across multiple pages that link to each other. This makes it very difficult to find a piece of infor...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Let us use a programming language to control the conversation flow instead of forcing us to use the dialog editor

The main feature of Watson Assistant is to categorize utterances and extract entities from them. Currently, the only way to use this feature is to edit the dialog using the UI provided on IBM cloud. It would be nice to have access to the main feat...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Include Graphframes Spark package in CPD

Graphframes package for Spark provides the capabilities of both the GraphX and the Spark DataFrames. The recent Apache Spark 3.0 release has several enhancements with respect to the features enablement and performance, especially, for the Spark Da...
about 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

At a Parameter to Allow more Flexibility in Kafka Topic Generation in KCOP

One of the potential customer uses Google BigQuery as their standard. The Google BigQuery can ONLY handle TopicName with Alphabet and "_". When I use the Json KCOP, it automatically generate the TopicName in following Format: <instance_name>...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Parts of Speech codes

Can the information found in the following tech note be included in the official product documentation? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21485217
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0

Allow for at least 3500 locations in spatio-temporal modeler

Many analyst look at county-level data of the whole nation when performing research (i.e. ~3200 counties). Analyzing parts of the country within themselves (if we were to break up the counties into regions) is not telling very much. Others look at...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration