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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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Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in most...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Add Business Process Visualizations feature to TFUI

Business Process Visualizations feature where users can create process diagrams in OP (using ProcessDiagram, DataInput, DataOutput object types) was only available in the Standard UI and retired in 8.3. Many clients use an external tool to create ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Pacemaker upgrade break cluster when Red Hat Satellite is not accessible

Hello, My idea is to add some check if Red Hat satellite is visible into db2installPCMK because if it's not, update will break cluster and DB2 will be unusable until visibility is fixed and db2installPCMK is executed again. As workaround you shoul...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

ZSAV extension support for Data Files

In SPSS Modeler included in Cloud Pak for Data, as supported Data File extension, there are plenty types, but the zsav format (the one used most often by the customer) which does not appear to be present in the list. It would be a good idea to inc...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Websheets in PAW should Update other PAW objects on data change/refresh

Currently PAW objects will refresh on data change. However websheet objects do not cause other objects to refresh. IE entering data in a websheet widget won't cause a chart or grid widget on the page to update even if a recalculate is performed. T...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow hierarchical view to select objects

Some objects can be naturally represented in a hierarchical view (for ex. Structures, Business Entities, etc.). In OpenPages today it is possible to create new elements in the tree, associate elements to objects, etc., by selecting them from a lis...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

About available languages of when defining Entity/Relation in Knowledge Studio.

I would like to request Japanese added to characters that can be used for Entities/Relations in Knowledge Studio. (This request is strongly seek by our clients of a major cosmetics manufacturer that has expanded worldwide through our Project.) the...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

To add an SFTP configuration so that we can push output files on different shared folders

Mainly we need to push the result sheet for any COGNOS report on separate folder for each user not only one shared path . As of now and as you suggested the folder configuration is being done on server level and all the reports will use the same f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration