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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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Clear instructions/information panel on using Document Classifier trained with custom dictionaries

Document classifiers are extremely valuable in programmatically sorting document types based on its content. The document classifier in WDS can be trained solely on parts-of-speech or in combination with additional assets such as custom dictionari...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

configure the tree diagram: card view

Currently, the tree diagram automatically displays our grid view in a card format so it does not display information we want to see for the tree - on the tree we should be able to configure the card view to show fields/ information that would bene...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Add option to dbschema command to see views

Currently, you have to do a system table query to see existing views. Please add an option (possibly -v) to dbschema to display views.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Caption function updates dimension name in task pane but not in the PAX exploration overview

If we use the Caption option to show a different dimension name then it shows in the task pane of PAX but not in the Overview section. Both need the alias to improve useability.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IDAA LOADER - Terminate a...

Today, when we have a problem with a Load execution, we can use the BMC ISPF application to terminate the utility or use the DB2 TERM UTILITY command.When using Loader, there is no way to terminate a utility unless using the HLOMAINT Job .So, we n...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

blocknonlogged should prevent nonrecoverable loads

The blocknonlogged config should block all nonlogged activity including loads. Or, an additional cfg should be added.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration