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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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Build Discovery support for automatic correction of mis-spellings instead of requiring Query expansion to explicitely train Discovery

We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot offering with Watson Discovery search integration. Feedback from one of our Customer's indicates that they are looking for built-in Watson Discovery support for correcting mis-spellings / offer...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Db2 LUW - SQL replication should optionally use TRUNCATE when performing a Full Refresh of large tables

Db2 LUW SQL Replication (10.2.1) When you run a Full Refresh of a subscription set, the asnapply utility issues a DELETE FROM <target table> prior to the refresh of the data. For large tables this has a significant and unnecessary overhead -...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Make CADataConnector API also available for ICP4DS

Notebook is available in Cognos Analytics 11.1 with CADataConnector API. It can be used for making connection to Cognos Analytics ( packages, reports and report output ) with read and write access.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Planned for future release

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Ability to compare profile runs and identify trends over time

Demonstrate the ability to identify data quality assessment's trends over time
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

OOTB capabilities to support a business-friendly UI for documenting data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc.  

Demonstrate the OOTB features to handle: documentation of data quality rules and linkage to scorecards, profiles, rule specifications, mappings, etc. 
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to support automated data certification (e.g. gold, silver, bronze)

Automated process for data certification, based on data profiling/quality assessment (Data Certification – based on data profiling/quality result and standards update metadata with proper certification rank)
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Automation rules which dynamically apply a DQ rule based on if then else criteria

Automated way of creating standard rules that can be implemented accross different source systems
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release